Keeping Faith: A NovelPicoult, Jodi
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Kevin McIlvoy's "Hyssop" is a remarkable novel filled with kindness, truth, and magic. It is a gorgeous patchwork of memory lovingly sewn together by Red Greet -- altruistic petty thief and guileless grifter -- who has spent many days of his eighty-seven years behind bars in Las Almas, New Mexico. Twice married, Red has sampled pleasures available only to those capable of embracing life and its temptations without shame or fear. But his sins have been as memorable as his adventures -- transgressions he shares freely with Bishop Frank Velasco, Red's lifelong best friend and confessor. In telling how he has loved and been loved, in confessing how he has sinned and inspired others to sin, Red Greet seeks hyssop, the substance that might wash his soul clean.
"[The hero] is a strange and wonderful old man..., a jackdaw of memory, collecting shiny, often unrelated bits of the past and presenting them with effusive joy."
Erik Burns, New York Times Book Review, 12/13/1998
Review:"...McIlvoy's technique is meticulous: Virtually no detail or personage is extraneous."
Leora Zeitlin, Bloomsbury Review, September 1999
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Hyssop (ISBN: 0380732718 / 0-380-73271-8) McLilvoy, Kevin Quantity Available: 1
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