The edge of sadness
By: Edwin O'Connor.
Series: Loyola classics series
Publisher: Loyola Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 646
Subjects: Clergy -- Fiction.; Catholics -- Fiction.; Alcoholics -- Fiction.; Irish Americans -- Fiction.; Belief and doubt -- Fiction.; Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Father Hugh Kennedy, a recovering alcoholic, returns to Boston to repair his damaged priesthood. There he is drawn into the unruly world of the Carmodys, a sprawling, prosperous Irish family teeming with passion and riddled with secrets. The story of this entanglement is a beautifully rendered tale of grace and renewal, of friendship and longing, of loneliness and spiritual aridity giving way to hope."--Page 4 of cover.