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9780374152147
The Faithful Narrative of a Pastor's Disappearance
Benjamin Anastas
ISBN 10: 0374152144 / 0-374-15214-4
ISBN 13: 9780374152147
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780374152147
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
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Synopsis:
Adultery, real estate, and religion collide in this new novel from "a bitterly funny" (The New Yorker) writer.
Reverend Thomas Mosher, the young black pastor of the Pilgrims' Congregational Church in W---, Massachusetts, has vanished without a trace. Does the rumored affair between Thomas and Bethany Caruso, unhappily married mother of two, provide an explanation? Did Thomas's esoteric final sermon, "The Shapes of Love" (positing that God is an "infinite sphere"), contain a clue? Did the overwhelmingly white, liberal parishioners drive him away?
Bethany and the rest of the congregants grapple with the ensuing crises. Chief among them: Artemesia Angelis, an unusually pious housewife with a fixation on the Puritan "heretic" Anne Hutchinson; Margaret Howard, matriarch of a thriving real estate business; and Bobby Caruso, Bethany's husband, whose lack of interest in church affairs is matched only by his wife's disdain for Bobby's "fornicatorium," a hapless, last-ditch attempt to save their marriage. "Where do people come from?" Bethany asks at the novel's end. "And where do they go? Who makes this world unbearable?" Benjamin Anastas's bold, blisteringly funny, and ultimately haunting satire of modern materialism marks the emergence of an astonishing talent.
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"A satire on the state of the American soul comes partially dressed in the bygone literary conventions of such learned colonists as Jonathan Edwards....An ambitious book, undone by its surfeit of symbolic meanings...."
Kirkus, 02/15/2001
Review:"[A] wonderfully crafted, emotionally resonant novel....The experience of loss and gain, the paradox of presence and absence, may both be fundamental to human existence; they make up the motion of this novel and the experience of faithfully reading it."
Reamy Jansen, Bloomsbury Review, July/August 2001
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