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About this Book

Format:Hardcover

Dimensions:416 Pages, 6.61 x 9.3 x 1.35 in

Published:July 28, 2009

Publisher:Random House of Canada

The following ISBNs are associated with this title:
ISBN - 10:0307357066
ISBN - 13:9780307357069

From the Publisher

From an award-winning writer and one of Canada's foremost broadcast journalists, comes a deeply wise and moving novel that explores the guilty minds and spiritual evasions of Catholic priests.

Father Duncan MacAskill has spent most of his priesthood as the "Exorcist" - an enforcer employed by his bishop to discipline wayward priests and suppress potential scandal. He knows all the devious ways that lonely priests persuade themselves that their needs trump their vows, but he's about to be sorely tested himself. While sequestered by his bishop in a small rural parish to avoid an impending public controversy, Duncan must confront the consequences of past cover-ups and the suppression of his own human needs. Pushed to the breaking point by loneliness, tragedy and sudden self-knowledge, Duncan discovers how hidden obsessions and guilty secrets either find their way to the light of understanding, or poison any chance we have for love and spiritual peace.

From the Jacket

Praise for Linden MacIntyre:

"MacIntyre isn't just another face and larynx from television [but] an honest-to-God writer…"
- Winnipeg Free Press

"MacIntyre is a fine writer."
- Alistair MacLeod

About the Author

Linden MacIntyre is the co-host of the fifth estate and the winner of nine Gemini Awards for broadcast journalism. His most recent book, a boyhood memoir called Causeway: A Passage from Innocence won both the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction.

Other Editions

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From the Critics

Praise for Linden MacIntyre:

"MacIntyre isn't just another face and larynx from television [but] an honest-to-God writer…"
- Winnipeg Free Press

"MacIntyre is a fine writer."
- Alistair MacLeod

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Reviews from the Community11 Reviews

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arrial
- 2 people found this helpful
A Great Read

3 weeks ago

This novel portrays a RC priest, Duncan MacAskill, whose job is to basically clean up scandals made by other clergy .Haunted by memories of his own past, and faced with the temptations of everyday life , MacAskill, trudges through life trying to make everything fine in the catholic church, while his own life is in turmoil.Then a local suicide makes him question his decisions of the past and of the future. I always knew the RC church was a powerful machine, growing up raised in it , but I did… + read more
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Flippin'Pages
A book deserving of its awards...

4 weeks ago

A great book about a small town father struggling between faith and modern reality. A page turner with alot of interesting characters and plot shifts. I would recommend this book to anyone.
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Denise Hill
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not what I expected

2 months ago

I found that the storyline was very confusing, jumping around a lot from past to present. I'm not really sure what the actual story is about, it all seemed very random to me. The end was vague and confused me. I was left wondering what had happened and needing more of an explanation.
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Dorothy McGill
A Bishop's Man

2 months ago

Very current. I got a totally different insight into the priesthood! They are, after all, just men and not gods!
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Julia Wiebe
Good story

2 months ago

Flipping between past and present was a little confusing at first but once the Father settled in one parish, it was a good story line and very deserving of the Gillis award. Love these stories set in Canada.
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