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The final retreat : a novel

Title
  1. The final retreat : a novel / Stephen Hough.
Published by
  1. London : Sylph Editions, [2018]
  2. ©2018
Format
  1. Book/text
Author
  1. Hough, Stephen, 1961-

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Description
  1. 185 pages : 1 color illustration; 21 cm
Summary
  1. "At the heart of The Final Retreat lies the question of how far the idea of a priest as a 'wounded healer' can be stretched. It is written as a diary-cum-memoir by Father Joseph, a middle-aged priest whose faith and life are in tatters, who is sent on an eight-day silent retreat by his kindly, sympathetic bishop. Apart from short daily meetings with a spiritual director, he speaks to no one. But he writes. Page after page, exploring the state of his soul, the loss of his vocation, his sexual addiction, and the events which are destroying his life"--Publisher's description.
Subject
  1. Priests -- Fiction.
  2. Suicide -- Fiction.
  3. Gay clergy -- Fiction.
  4. Belief and doubt -- Fiction.
  5. Diaries.
  6. Suicide.
  7. Gay clergy.
  8. Belief and doubt.
  9. Priests.
Genre/Form
  1. Novels.
  2. Fiction.
  3. Diary fiction.
  4. Psychological fiction.
Call number
  1. JMD 19-162
Language
  1. English
Note
  1. By composer and concert pianist Stephen Hough.
Author
  1. Hough, Stephen, 1961- author.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
ISBN
  1. 1909631280
  2. 9781909631281
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