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There 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 whom they would confess the darkest things. It was important to feel him out. Mrs Young, for instance, after she had seen him eat a piece of her macaroni pie, quietly asked what he thought of adultery.
Andr 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's very bucolic-too much Barrow Brew on Barrow Day is the rowdiest it gets. Bu things aren't so idyllic for Liz Denny, whose fianc doesn't want to decide between Liz and his more worldly mistress Jane, and for Father Pennant himself, who greets some miracles of nature-mayors walking on water, talking sheep-with a profound crisis of faith.
'It's been clear since his debut novel, Childhood, that Alexis is one of our most distinctive and exacting prose stylists, and at its highest pitch, as in the breathtaking final paragraph, these are sentences that attain the level of the best music.' - Montreal Gazette
Praise for Andr Alexis's previous books:
Astonishing . . . an irresistible, one-of-a-kind work.-Quill & Quire
Alexis has an] astute understanding of the madly shimmering, beautifully weaving patterns created by what we have agreed to call memory.-Ottawa Citizen
Andr Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His books include Asylum and Ingrid and the Wolf.
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I knew I had read Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis previously but thought it was last year, but turns out it was this year! This book went a lot better for me, although I gave the other book 3 stars and this one 4 stars. I enjoyed Pastoral million miles more but not quite enough for a 5 stars. I found myself more invested and enjoyed the format more with this audiobook and didn't feel like I've should have read it as an ebook instead. Worked out just fine as an audiobook
About the Author:
Andre Alexis: Andre Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His books include Asylum and Ingrid & the Wolf.
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