A Guest at the Feast
Essays
New York : Scribner, 2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description: x, 323 pages ; 22 cm
"From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Part one. Cancer: My part in its downfall -- A guest at the feast -- A brush with the law -- Part two. The paradoxical pope -- Among the flutterers -- The Bergoglio smile: Pope Francis -- The Ferns report -- Part three. Putting religion in its place: Marilynne Robinson -- Issues of truth and invention: Francis Stuart -- Snail slow: John McGahern -- Epilogue. Alone in Venice.
Subjects:
Tóibín, Colm, 1955-
Authors, Irish -- 21st century -- Biography.
Cancer -- Patients -- England -- London -- Biography.
Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Popes -- Biography.
Religion in literature.
Travel writing.
Ireland -- Social life and customs.
Venice (Italy)
Tóibín, Colm, 1955-
Authors, Irish -- 21st century -- Biography.
Cancer -- Patients -- England -- London -- Biography.
Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Popes -- Biography.
Religion in literature.
Travel writing.
Ireland -- Social life and customs.
Venice (Italy)
ISBN:
9781476785202
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LITERATURE Essays Toi | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |