No Other Life - Hardcover

Moore, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394280040 ISBN 13: 9780394280042

Verlag: Random House of Canada Ltd, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

This national bestseller is a swift, spellbinding tale of two men: Jeannot, a visionary black priest -- hailed as the new Messiah of a Caribbean island, and Father Paul Michel, the Canadian missionary who serves as his mentor. As Jeannot rises in power, making deadly enemies of the corrupt army, the mulatto elite, drug dealers and the Catholic Church, the reluctant Father Michel finds himself drawn into a drama of faith an politics.

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Brian Moore was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1921. He served with the Ministry of War in North Africa, Italy, and France during the Second World War. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and worked as a newspaper reporter for the Montreal <i>Gazette</i> from 1948 until 1952.<br><br>While living in Canada, Moore wrote his first three novels, <i>The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne</i>, <i>The Feast of Lupercal</i>, and <i>The Luck of Ginger Coffey</i>, the first two set in Belfast, the third in Montreal. In 1959 he moved to the United States, but Canada continued to play a role in his later novels, including <i>I Am Mary Dunne</i>, <i>The Great Victorian Collection</i>, and <i>Black Robe</i>. His many honours included two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction.<br><br>

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l bestseller is a swift, spellbinding tale of two men: Jeannot, a visionary black priest -- hailed as the new Messiah of a Caribbean island, and Father Paul Michel, the Canadian missionary who serves as his mentor. As Jeannot rises in power, making deadly enemies of the corrupt army, the mulatto elite, drug dealers and the Catholic Church, the reluctant Father Michel finds himself drawn into a drama of faith an politics.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House of Canada Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0394280040
• ISBN 13: 9780394280042
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 217
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