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Keneally, Thomas.
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Catholic Church -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia -- Fiction.
Belief and doubt -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
Clergy -- Fiction.
Australia -- Fiction.
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Keneally, Thomas.
Catholic Church -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia -- Fiction.
Belief and doubt -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
Clergy -- Fiction.
Australia -- Fiction.
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The
office
of
innocence
/ Thomas Keneally.
by
Keneally, Thomas.
Sceptre/Hodder and Stoughton, c2002.
Call #:
FICTION KEN
Subjects
Catholic Church -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia -- Fiction.
Belief and doubt -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
Clergy -- Fiction.
Australia -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0340624736
9780340624760 (pbk.)
Description:
336 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"On the outskirts of Sydney, Father Frank Darragh is embarking on his new life of priesthood just as war erupts in the Pacific theater. American GIs pour into Father Darragh?s neighborhood, and with them comes a reminder of the atrocities abounding nearby. Determined to shun hypocrisy, the earnest priest finds himself constantly at odds with his superiors, who frown on his efforts to rescue an errant black soldier and pay deathbed visits to the wayward. But Frank Darragh persists, becoming his parish?s most popular confessor, particularly among wives of Australian servicemen who confront an array of temptations while their husbands are away. One such parishioner, Kate Heggarty, turns the tables of temptation on young Darragh, challenging his spiritual beliefs and stirring a vulnerable place in his heart. When Kate is found murdered, his anguish is only compounded by accusations that he caused her death. Poignantly depicting the conflicts between the secular and the holy, and between the family of Darragh?s birth and the brotherhood of priests,
OFFICE
OF
INNOCENCE
is a tale set in the most compelling of circumstances. Drawing on his own experience studying for the priesthood in his youth, Thomas Keneally has created an endearing protagonist who speaks to the conundrums of our age while paying tribute to quiet heroes of the past."--Inside jacket.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
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