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The Vicar of Sorrows
A. N. Wilson
ISBN 13: 9780393312942
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Softcover
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In this powerful novel that will confirm his reputation as one of Britain's brightest literary lights, A.N. Wilson recounts the downward spiral of Francis Kreer, a clergyman who has stopped believing in God and whose marriage has begun to come apart at the seams. When his mother dies, Francis is shocked to discover that she had a lover and that he must share his inheritance with this odious man. Then Francis falls in love--painfully, absolutely--with an irresistible but most unsuitable young woman. Wilson traces Francis's descent through various circles of the English establishment and counterculture, a tragi-comic journey that takes the hero to the outer edges of both absurdity and despair.
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"A marvelously concieved novel that takes on everything from the Church of England to modern marriage in its sendup of contemporary mores."
Gail Caldwell, Boston Sunday Globe
Review:"Quite superb...Wilson's eye on the minefields of English social and clerical life is devastatingly accurate."
Gabrielle Donnelly, Los Angeles Times
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