The Edge of Sadness spiritual Book Two (2 vols

Book Two (2 vols

The epoch of 1789 to 1870

Michel rises to pursue that same aim of awakening France from its spiritual slumber—albeit now in the humble role of parish priest to a cheerless fishing village

” (Romano Guardini)

an aged clerk gains support from his son and daughter-in-law

The Edge of Sadness spiritual Book Two (2 volsBy Edwin O'Connor Father Hugh Kennedy has come home. Newly sober, he is charged by his bishop with a derelict, dusty, and dying parish, in a decrepit part of the city. Quite content with his lot, Father Hugh is suddenly pulled back into a past world: the exuberant, turbulent, Irish American world in which he was born and raised. With one telephone call, old Charlie Carmody brings Father Hugh out of his hum drum, methodical priestly life, and gives him