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A fallen Catholic recounts a succession of Holy Weeks as spent in Poland, Seville, Bavaria, Rome, the Balkans, Estonia, Ireland, and Scotland, and along the way he confronts his own inner demons and feelings about his faith. 10,000 first printing.
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Colm Tóibín writes beautifully in a spare style that allows for plain description, high humour and effects that are carefully toned. He is at once an honest, uncertain pilgrim with a press card and a sense of devilment, and a son on an Oedipal trail. (Irish Times)
A mixture of autobiography, travelogue and journalism which tantalizes the reader with what it withholds as much as it entertains and instructs with what it describes . . . The Sign of the Cross, like all good writing, is a treat. (Independent on Sunday)
This book describing Colm Tóibín’s journey is written with the novelist’s familiar clarity and wisdom. It is as much a record of the European Catholic psyche in different political climates as it is an introspective pilgrimage to see what stuff Tóibín’s own faith is made of. (Daily Telegraph)
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A mixture of autobiography, travelogue and journalism which tantalizes the reader with what it withholds as much as it entertains and instructs with what it describes . . . The Sign of the Cross, like all good writing, is a treat. (Independent on Sunday)
This book describing Colm Tóibín’s journey is written with the novelist’s familiar clarity and wisdom. It is as much a record of the European Catholic psyche in different political climates as it is an introspective pilgrimage to see what stuff Tóibín’s own faith is made of. (Daily Telegraph)
Part travelogue, part autobiography, part historical document, this is Colm Tóibín at his finest and most insightful.
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- PublisherPantheon Books
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0679442030
- ISBN 13 9780679442035
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