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Name: The Edge of Sadness

Author: Edwin O'Connor
Year: 1961
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Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Award winners, Religion

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ISBN:
9780883472590
0883472597
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962.

"A realistic Christian novel of hope in a non-Christian age."-New England Quarterly

"A deeply felt and eloquently expressed work . . . A quiet, gentle novel of considerable insight and charm . . ."-Library Journal
"O'Connor succeeds in delineating poignantly the overwhelming spiritual storms of the soul which assail the conscientious clergyman."-The Christian Century

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
 
In this moving novel, Father Hugh Kennedy, a recovering alcoholic, returns to Boston to repair his damaged priesthood. There he is drawn into the unruly world of the Carmodys, a sprawling, prosperous Irish family teeming with passion and riddled with secrets. The story of this entanglement is a beautifully rendered tale of grace and renewal, of friendship and longing, of loneliness and spiritual aridity giving way to hope.
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