The Last Catholic In America

Fiction & Literature, Coming of Age, Religious, Historical
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Author: John R. Powers, Andrew Greeley, Amy Welborn ISBN: 9780829430073
Publisher: Loyola Press Publication: April 14, 2009
Imprint: Loyola Classics Language: English
Author: John R. Powers, Andrew Greeley, Amy Welborn
ISBN: 9780829430073
Publisher: Loyola Press
Publication: April 14, 2009
Imprint: Loyola Classics
Language: English
It is fast-moving and often downright funny." New York Times "He has recaptured childish innocence and presented it with adult enlightenment plus a touch of cynicism yet never with irreverence." Book-of-the-Month Club News First confession and its terrors. Eighty-four first graders in a classroom ruled by just one nun. The agony and the ecstasy of Lent. The dubious honor of being declared the worst altar server ever. Dinah Shore and the Blessed Virgin haunting your dreams. This is Eddie Ryan's world as he grows up in the intensely Catholic world of South-Side Chicago's St. Bastion's parish in the 1950s. In this classic coming-of-age novel, John Powers draws readers into Eddie Ryan's world with deep affection and bittersweet humor.
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It is fast-moving and often downright funny." New York Times "He has recaptured childish innocence and presented it with adult enlightenment plus a touch of cynicism yet never with irreverence." Book-of-the-Month Club News First confession and its terrors. Eighty-four first graders in a classroom ruled by just one nun. The agony and the ecstasy of Lent. The dubious honor of being declared the worst altar server ever. Dinah Shore and the Blessed Virgin haunting your dreams. This is Eddie Ryan's world as he grows up in the intensely Catholic world of South-Side Chicago's St. Bastion's parish in the 1950s. In this classic coming-of-age novel, John Powers draws readers into Eddie Ryan's world with deep affection and bittersweet humor.

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