num_pages: 162
description: There were plans for an official welcome. It was to take place the following Sunday. But those who came to the rectory on Father Pennant's second day were the ones who could not resist seeing him sooner. Here was the man to whom they would confess the darkest things. It was important to feel him out. Mrs Young for instance after she had seen him eat a piece of her macaroni pie quietly asked what he thought of adultery.Andr Alexis brings a modern sensibility and a new liveliness to an age-old genre the pastoral.For his very first parish Father Christopher Pennant is sent to the sleepy town of Barrow. With more sheep than people it's very bucolictoo much Barrow Brew on Barrow Day is the rowdiest it gets. But things aren't so idyllic for Liz Denny whose fianc doesn't want to decide between Liz and his more worldly mistress Jane and for Father Pennant himself who greets some miracles of naturemayors walking on water talking sheepwith a profound crisis of faith.
language: English
title: Pastoral
publisher: Coach House Books