I found this in a Chicago Tribune column about summer reading:
"The Power and the Glory" by Graham Greene. You want a novel about atonement? In a Mexican state in the 1930s, the Catholic Church has been outlawed. The last priest--the whiskey priest--is on the run from the firing squad. Greene's 1940 classic, as gripping as a modern thriller, is a generous yet merciless portrayal of humans and their church. Everyone is flawed--the priests, the people who loathe them, the people who want them to be saints--but courage sometimes flickers even in the cynical, corrupted soul.
How does this columnist describe the genre of this novel?
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Mr. Tangen, where do we answer this question? On our blogs or as a comment on this post? I'll put it on my blog meanwhile, just in case.
Where do we post this Sr.?
I just threw it up there. I thought it might interest you.
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