Paradise News (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: David Lodge
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Family or family life, Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Islands, Death or dying, Catholics or Catholic Church, Vacations, Tourist trade, Middle age, Theology, Skepticism
- Locales: England, Hawaii
David Lodge has earned critical acclaim with his clever and highly amusing fiction. PARADISE NEWS is Lodge’s ninth novel and certainly one of his most profound and comic. Bernard Walsh is an ex-priest who seems to have lost his religious faith, although he has become a theology teacher at St. John’s College. Continuing to lead a cloistered life, he suffers from a deep-seated sense of frustration with himself and the world he inhabits. Walsh may have left the priesthood, but the trappings that go with the profession, such as celibacy, have become impossible to remove. An...
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