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The final retreat: a novel

✍ Scribed by Hough, Stephen


Publisher
Sylph Editions
Year
2018
Tongue
en-US
Weight
319 KB
Category
Fiction
City
London
ISBN
1909631280

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✦ Synopsis


"At the heart of The Final Retreat lies the question of how far the idea of a priest as a 'wounded healer' can be stretched. It is written as a diary-cum-memoir by Father Joseph, a middle-aged priest whose faith and life are in tatters, who is sent on an eight-day silent retreat by his kindly, sympathetic bishop. Apart from short daily meetings with a spiritual director, he speaks to no one. But he writes. Page after page, exploring the state of his soul, the loss of his vocation, his sexual addiction, and the events which are destroying his life."--Publisher's description.

✦ Subjects


Belief and doubt -- Fiction


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