The bishop's man : a novel
MacIntyre, Linden
The bishop's man : a novel / Linden MacIntyre. - Toronto, ON : Random House , c2009. - 399 p. ; 24 cm.
The story follows the life of a Catholic priest named Duncan MacAskill. In the 1970s MacAskill convinced a rural Nova Scotia priest who impregnated his own housekeeper to quickly move to Toronto and avoided what could have been a significant local controversy. MacAskill was subsequently called upon numerous times by the Catholic Church to quietly resolve numerous potential controversies. By the 1990s, MacAskill was the dean of a Nova Scotia Catholic university. He is soon sent to oversee a remote Cape Breton Island parish where he would have a low profile, deal with a new impending public controversy, and come to terms with the consequences of his past cover-ups.
English.
The Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner.
9780307357069
Catholic Church---Clergy ---Fiction
Catholic Church---Corrupt practices ---Fiction
Clergy----Fiction
Psychological fiction
PR9199.3.M3222 / B57 2009
FIC MAC
The bishop's man : a novel / Linden MacIntyre. - Toronto, ON : Random House , c2009. - 399 p. ; 24 cm.
The story follows the life of a Catholic priest named Duncan MacAskill. In the 1970s MacAskill convinced a rural Nova Scotia priest who impregnated his own housekeeper to quickly move to Toronto and avoided what could have been a significant local controversy. MacAskill was subsequently called upon numerous times by the Catholic Church to quietly resolve numerous potential controversies. By the 1990s, MacAskill was the dean of a Nova Scotia Catholic university. He is soon sent to oversee a remote Cape Breton Island parish where he would have a low profile, deal with a new impending public controversy, and come to terms with the consequences of his past cover-ups.
English.
The Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner.
9780307357069
Catholic Church---Clergy ---Fiction
Catholic Church---Corrupt practices ---Fiction
Clergy----Fiction
Psychological fiction
PR9199.3.M3222 / B57 2009
FIC MAC
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