Idealistic love and death, sibling rivalry and obsessive lust are themes familiar to McGinley's work, focusing here on Arty Brennan, who built factories, a supermarket and a noisy motel, trading a spiritually enriching culture for a "hippiedrome" of second-rate 20th century glitter. Patrick McGinley has also written "Bogmail", "Goosefoot", "Fox Prints", "Foggage", "The Trick of the Ga Bolga" and "The Red Men".
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Idealistic love and death, sibling rivalry and obsessive lust are themes familiar to McGinley's work, focusing here on Arty Brennan, who built factories, a supermarket and a noisy motel, trading a spiritually enriching culture for a "hippiedrome" of second-rate 20th century glitter. Patrick McGinley has also written "Bogmail", "Goosefoot", "Fox Prints", "Foggage", "The Trick of the Ga Bolga" and "The Red Men".
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Add this copy of The Devil's Diary to cart. $3.93, good condition, Sold by Cat On The Shef rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fort Worth, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by St. Martin's Press.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x0; Minor shelf wear to binding on corners, edges & spine. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly shelf worn around edges with scuffs, creases & small scratches in a mylar cover.
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New York. 1988. St Martin's Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0312021933. 249 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Sandra Dionisi. keywords: Literature Ireland. FROM THE PUBLISHER-A psychological mystery with haunting overtones, this novel focuses on a priest tormented by the loss of the Gaelic culture, by the increasing worldliness of religion and by his own sexual desires. After a long illness, Father Jerry McSharry returns home to rural Ireland. The peaceful village he remembers no longer exists; his childhood playmate, Arty Brennan, a poor boy who returned wealthy after 10 years in America, has brought prosperity to the area. To Father Jerry, these changes are ‘monstrosities that leapt aggressively to the eye. ' Olga, a sculptor to whom Father Jerry is drawn, seems to be attracted to him but she also admires Brennan. Then Father Jerry's brother Hugo comes back to the village and purchases a farm coveted by Brennan. Hugo becomes the butt of malicious pranks for which he believes Brennan is responsible. Father Jerry doesn't quite believe him until he and Hugo narrowly escape a car crash. Later, Brennan is found dead, and Father Jerry discovers Hugo's ‘diary' and reads the latest entry: a compelling, supposedly fictional account of Brennan's disappearance. The priest finds himself drawn into the ambivalent world of the diary, which reflects his deepest, darkest thoughts and desires. McGinley (THE RED MEN, FOXPRINTS ) tells an evocative, disturbing story of a man who wants to pursue a life of ‘work, study, and prayer alone' but who is distracted by the world in which he lives. -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. inventory #11473.
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