Pastoral, Andre Alexis
Pastoral, Andre Alexis
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Pastoral

Author: André Alexis

Narrator: André Alexis

Unabridged: 6 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 10/17/2017


Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction PrizeOne of The Globe and Mail's Globe 100: Best Books of 2014There were plans for an official welcome. It was to take place the following Sunday. But those who came to the rectory on Father Pennant's second day were the ones who could not resist seeing him sooner. Here was the man to whomthey would confess the darkest things. It was important to feel him out. Mrs. Young, for instance, after she had watched him eat a piece of her macaroni pie, quietly asked what he thought of adultery.André Alexis brings a modern sensibility and a new liveliness to an age-old genre, the pastoral.For his very first parish, Father Christopher Pennant is sent to the sleepy town of Barrow. With more sheep than people, it is sleepily bucolic – too much Barrow Brew on Barrow Day is the rowdiest it gets. But things aren't so idyllic for Liz Denny, whose fiancé doesn't want to choose between Liz and his more worldly lover Jane, or for Father Pennant himself, whose faith is profoundly shaken by the miracles he witnesses – a mayor walking on water, intelligent gypsy moths and a talking sheep.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matt

First Book of Alexis' Quincunx A novel written with awe-inspiring grace and confidence. Before Trinidadian-born Canadian author André Alexis drew fame for his Giller-Prize Winning novel Fifteen Dogs, he began his ambitious Quincunx project with Pastoral. A quick visit to Wikipedia prior to my read......more

Goodreads review by Krista

pas•to•ral adjective 1. (especially of land or a farm) used for or related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle. 2. (in the Christian Church) concerning or appropriate to the giving of spiritual guidance. noun 1. a work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life. With the full......more