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Highlights
- "So rich and vital it leaves you breathless.
- Author(s): James Carroll
- 544 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Historical
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About the Book
Vietnam: bitterly contested on the American home front and on the battlefields of Southeast Asia. Risking his vows to the priesthood and his status as a Korean War hero, Michael Maguire struggles with God and country in this thrilling novel of faith, truth, and honor, so rich and vital it leaves you breathless (Chicago Tribune).Book Synopsis
"So rich and vital it leaves you breathless." -- Chicago Tribune
From the writer of Mortal Friends and Family Trade, a sweeping tale of struggling with God, country, and the religious ignition of the 60s' anti-war movement in this thrilling novel of faith, truth, and honor.
Michael Maguire, a Korean War vet, enters the priesthood in an attempt to do some good in the world, after suffering in a POW camp for more than 2 years. But once the war in Vietnam breaks out, his clashes with the hierarchically-minded members of the church--which is evolving into a body with political ambitions of its own--sending him into rebellion not only against the diocese but the law. It's a sweeping tale not only of the divisions plaguing American Christianity - especially Catholicism - but of the difficulty of parsing, when pulled in so many directions, right and wrong.
Review Quotes
"Probing psychological detail and wide-screen narrative momentum."
-- The Washington Post
"So rich and vital it leaves you breathless." -- The Chicago Tribune