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The Edge of Sadness

Edwin O'Connor

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The Edge of Sadness won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In this moving novel, 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.

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Publisher
Loyola Press
Year
2010
ISBN-13
9780829429596
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Faith and redemptionIrish-American family lifeAlcoholism and recovery

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