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The senator and the priest
Record details
- ISBN: 9780765355041 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0765355043 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0765315912
- ISBN: 9780765315915
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Physical Description:
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336 p. ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Forge, 2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Tom Doherty Associates Book." |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Political campaigns -- Fiction Catholics -- Fiction Clergy -- Fiction Legislators -- Fiction Brothers -- Fiction Illinois -- Fiction Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Political fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort St. John Public Library | AF GRE (Text) | BFSJ109413 | ADULT Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Radium Hot Springs Public Library | FIC GRE (Text) | 35130000084545 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
More information
- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2006 September #2
Catholic priest Greeley tells a blarney-drenched tale of Cain and Abel on the Beltway.The Moran brothers are Irish-Catholic to the core-but there the similarity ends. Father Tony is a priest for whom tolerance is an infallible sign of both weakness and error. Under his surplice beats a heart that's hard not to think of as un-Christian. On the other hand, his sibling, Tom Cruise look-alike Tommy, a bestselling author and TV celebrity, is all warmth, gentle wit and endless compassion. Between the brothers, smoldering ill feelings flare up when the Illinois Democrats surprise Tommy by asking him to run for the US Senate. This enrages Father Tony: "You can't be a good, practicing Catholic and be a Democratic senator," he snarls, capping it with, "And besides you're out of your depth." Tommy bears up, reminding himself of a time when he adored his sibling, when they were kids, and husky, athletic Tony was his protection against large, predatory schoolmates. But Tommy's wife, the brilliant, successful, high-profile and gorgeously red-haired lawyer Mary Margaret, will have none of that. "He has tried to throw a wet blanket on your life," she informs her husband regularly. Against all political odds, Tommy beats the entrenched incumbent. In the Senate, he performs magnificently, wows all right-thinking observers. "My cute little Irish superhero," gushes Mary Margaret. When he decides to run for reelection, the gobshites gang up on him. He's a match for them all, including the ferocious Father Tony, who remains intractable until the end.Slow and relentlessly cloying. The author (The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood, 2005, etc.) has done much better work.Agent: Raphael Sagalyn/Sagalyn Literary Agency Copyright Kirkus 2006 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2006 September #3
Prolific author and priest Greeley (Irish Crystal ) stumbles with this story of a liberal Catholic senator from Illinois who bursts onto the national political stage. Thomas Patrick Moran first attracts attention when he announces his candidacy for a state assembly seat, vowing never to run anything negative about his opponent or ask anyone for a contribution. After his crusade catches fire, the local Democratic machine enlists him to run for the Senate. That successful campaign is marked by numerous attempts on his life that are foiled, in a silly and unnecessary subplot, by his youngest daughter's psychic premonitions of danger. While Moran debates some serious political and moral issues with his conservative priest brother, Tony, Greeley's hagiographic portrait of Moran, complete with details of his sex life with his stunning wife, leaves no doubt where the author's sympathies lie. Even longtime fans may be disappointed. (Nov.)
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