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A devout Catholic of Jewish descent has a nervous breakdown on the day of his ordination, winds up guiding tours of Jack the Ripper's crime scenes, and experiences a sexual awakening in the vicinity of a humble rent boy.
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This novel is the tale of a novice priest who suffers a nervous breakdown during mass. Ensuing psychoanalysis reveals his hatred of the church, his latent homosexuality, his realized homosexuality, and his torrid affair with a male prostitute named Jack who baptizes him in the faith, so to speak, with a shower of urine. And this is just part of what the novel offers. In what the author no doubt believes is clever counterpoint, the psychoanalytical monologs are interspersed with a second stream of monologs from the troubled priest's day job as a tour guide of Jack the Ripper's murder sites. At this point, Dave Barry would feel compelled to say, "I'm not making this up." Unfortunately, Arditti (Pagan's Father, LJ 8/96) is, and he has produced an astonishingly bad story. In fact, this novel's very existence strains credulity. Not recommended.?Paul Hutchison, Bellefonte, Pa.
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