β Scribed by Peter de Vries
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
An irresistible comedy about faith, desire, and middle-class morality from the man described by Kingsley Amis as "the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic"
Pity the poor reverend Andrew Mackerel of the People's Liberal Church of Avalon, Connecticut. His is the first split-level church in America, a bastion of modern thought and sophisticated virtue, yet even his prosperous parishioners are not immune to the backsliding evangelism infecting other parts of the country. One misguided congregant wants to sing hymns to hospital patients. Another goes so far as to put up a billboard with the message "Jesus Saves" written in phosphorescent green-and-orange letters. How is Mackerel supposed to write sermons with a vulgarity like that staring him in the face?
Worse yet, the recently widowed pastor has fallen in love with Molly Calico, a former actress turned city hall clerk, well before the church is ready to stop mourning Mackerel's...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
The Plaza It is 1938 and Patience Styles has been banished from her home in England. Patience has caused a scandal that the family just will not accept, she was caught in a compromising position with another woman. Upon arriving in Boston, she and her husband prepare to start a new life. Things ge
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Times; min-height: 16.0px} ***Wonder* meets *Three Times Lucky* in a story of empowerment as a young woman decides to help solve the mystery of multiple suspicious deaths in her group home.
La muerte tragica de la mujer del protagonista de Plaza Irlanda hace ingresar al "sobreviviente" a territorios desconocidos: el de una nueva vida para la que no estaba preparado, el del nuevo Buenos Aires sin Helena. Estos territorios se construyen con un complejo juego de referencias a mapas, mitos
El libro Plaza Sinclair (Conejos, 2018) de Jorge Consiglio propone una poΓ©tica atenta tanto a los detalles visibles como a los intangibles. Con una voz propia, nutrida de adjetivos sonoros y pensados, los poemas del autor describen lugares y personas a las que el paso del tiempo afecta de una manera
Β«La PlazaΒ» narra la minuciosa construcciΓ³n de un ajuste de cuentas entre un puΓ±ado de sobrevivientes de la noche de Tlatelolco y uno de los autores polΓticos de esa masacre. No habrΓa que dudar en situarla entre lo mejor de Luis Spota. La pΓ‘ginas de Β«La PlazaΒ» recogen y se apropian de las voces de u