Reporters on The Bishop’s Man’s Giller triumph have described the book as straightforward storytelling, but that’s not quite right. The story goes back and forth in time to track a man’s growing disillusionment with his role as priest, shedding a powerful light on what goes on behind the scenes in the culture of the Catholic clergy.
You know you’re in the hands of a master when John Irving is the captain of the ship. He’s steered us through absurdity in The World According To Garp, taken us past strangely amusing incestuous relationships in Hotel New Hampshire and sailed through childhood wonder in A Prayer For Owen Meany.
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