The sign of the cross : travels in Catholic Europe /
Written with great smartness of style and extraordinary for the keeness and profunity of its observations, The Sign of the Cross depicts a pilgrimage through Catholic Europe, even as it charts a journey of self-discovery on the part of Colm Tóibin, one of Ireland's literary eminences. A Catholi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[1994]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Online Access: | Publisher description |
| Summary: | Written with great smartness of style and extraordinary for the keeness and profunity of its observations, The Sign of the Cross depicts a pilgrimage through Catholic Europe, even as it charts a journey of self-discovery on the part of Colm Tóibin, one of Ireland's literary eminences. A Catholic only by baptism, communion, and confirmation, he reckons with the religious demons of his past. Here are the rituals, the pilgrimages, and the shrines; the fanatics, the charlatans, and the sincerely devout. This is a book about knowing that you can be moved intensely by someone else's belief while remaining unable to share it. -- Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | 296 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0679442030 9780679442035 |