Jan 7, 2009
-ANNUNCIATION is a complex novel about the need for faith in a dark modern world. Unlike David Plante’s previous novels, it is quasi-allegorical and highly plotted. Its narrative focuses on two characters who do not meet until midway through the novel. Both characters are desperately unhappy; both rely on will and rationality to see them through life. The trajectory of ANNUNCIATION follows these two as their search for a rare painting leads them towards an affirmation of their shared Catholic heritage.
It is only several years after the suicide of Claire O’Connel’s...
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