Variations - Couverture souple

Donatich, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1250022290 ISBN 13 : 9781250022295

Editeur : Griffin, 2013

Synopsis

A compelling sympathy of the faiths that fill the gap between who we set out to be and who we ultimately become

A powerful debut novel about a priest who has lost his church, his mentor, and, most upsetting, his ability to pray. How can Father Dominic protect or guide his parish when everything he loves falls away? How can he counsel Dolores, a troubled teenager prone to emotional panic and spiritual monomania? Or James, a promising African American pianist, struggling to realize his artistic ambitions by bringing his own voice to a piece that has been played by the world's most brilliant pianists, Bach's Goldberg Variations.

Into this malaise comes Andrea, a sophisticated New York editor attracted at first by Dom's blog and then by the man himself. Dom's journey from the cloth into the secular world will offer carnal knowledge, but also something deeper, a more resistant knowledge as life fails to offer happiness or redemption. In prose both searching and muscular, John Donatich's The Variations has located the right metaphor for our spiritual crisis in this story of one man's spiritual disillusion and ache for self-knowledge.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Donatich is the director of the Yale University Press. His essays and occasional pieces have appeared in Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly. The Variations is his first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Griffin
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250022290
• ISBN 13: 9781250022295
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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