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The final retreat : a novel / Stephen Hough.
Van Pelt Library PR6058.O832 F56 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hough, Stephen, 1961- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Priests--Fiction.
- Priests.
- Gay clergy.
- Suicide--Fiction.
- Suicide.
- Gay clergy--Fiction.
- Belief and doubt--Fiction.
- Belief and doubt.
- Diaries.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Diary fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 185 pages : 1 color illustration ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Sylph Editions, [2018]
- Summary:
- "At the heart of The Final Retreat lies the question of how far the idea of a priest as a 'wounded healer' can be stretched. It is written as a diary-cum-memoir by Father Joseph, a middle-aged priest whose faith and life are in tatters, who is sent on an eight-day silent retreat by his kindly, sympathetic bishop. Apart from short daily meetings with a spiritual director, he speaks to no one. But he writes. Page after page, exploring the state of his soul, the loss of his vocation, his sexual addiction, and the events which are destroying his life."--Publisher's description.
- Notes:
- By composer and concert pianist Stephen Hough.
- ISBN:
- 1909631280
- 9781909631281
- OCLC:
- 1007064103
- Publisher Number:
- 99980190916
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