A guest at the feast : essays
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
824.914/TOIBIN,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, [2023]
©2023
©2023
EDITION
First Scribner hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
x, 323 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781476785202, 1476785201, 9781476785202
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Part one / Cancer: My part in its downfall -- A guest at the feast -- A brush with the law -- Part two / The paradoxical pope -- Among the flutterers -- The Bergoglio smile: Pope Francis -- The Ferns report -- Part three / Putting religion in its place: Marilynne Robinson -- Issues of truth and invention: Francis Stuart -- Snail show: John McGaharn -- Alone in Venice
"From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature"--