The all of it / Jeannette Haien.

Title:

ISBN:

9780062090096

Personal Author:

Haien, Jeannette

Edition:

First HarperPerennial edition.

Publication Information:

New York : HarperPerennial, 2011.

Physical Description:

ix, 145 pages ; 21 cm

General Note:

Originally published: Boston : D.R. Godine, 1986.

Awards Note:

Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, 1987.

Summary:

Relates the seemingly simple tale of a parishioner confiding in her priest, but the tangled confession brings secrets to light that provoke a moral quandary for not only the clergyman, but the reader as well. Set in a small town in Ireland, Haien's intimate novel of conversations and dilemmas-perfect for readers of Paul Harding's Tinkers, Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, and Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood.

Corporate Subject:

Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Fiction.

Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

Salmon fishing--Ireland -- Fiction

Priests--Ireland -- Fiction.

Widows--Ireland -- Fiction.

Confession -- Fiction

Siblings -- Fiction

Genre:

Domestic fiction

Novellas