The pilgrimage / Johan Broderick ; with a foreword by Colm Tóibín.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broderick, John, author.

Contributor:

Tóibín, Colm, 1955- contributor.

Series:

McNally editions, no.37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations).

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Fiction.

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Anonymous letters--Fiction.

Anonymous letters.

Catholic women--Fiction.

Catholic women.

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Ireland--Fiction.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

xi, 207 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First McNally Editions Paperback

Place of Publication:

New York : McNally Editions, 2025.

Summary:

"An erotic nightmare of Catholic longing, guilt, and desire and a banned classic of modern Irish literature...Wealthy and devout, Michael and Julia Glynn are the envy of their neighbors and the model Irish Catholic couple, bearing Michael's increasingly painful and crippling arthritis with stoicism. In hope of a miracle, their priest suggests a family pilgrimage to Lourdes. Yet these pious holiday plans are thrown into disarray when anonymous, obscene letters begin to arrive, full of terrible accusations. Banned in Ireland on its first publication in 1961, Broderick's debut arrived "like an incendiary device" (Sunday Independent). The Pilgrimage anticipated the deep shifts that would soon turn the country's theocratic society upside down. It is a darkly comic, blasphemous, and sexually charged chamber drama laying bare the hypocrisies of a small Irish town "as watchful as the jungle," and teetering on the brink of catastrophe..." -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Originally published in 1961 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London" -- title page verso.

ISBN:

9781946022950

1946022950

OCLC:

1461995560