The author explores the role of Catholicism in the lives of people throughout Europe and reexamines its impact on his own life
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Review:
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)
Book Description:
Part travelogue, part autobiography, part historical document, this is Colm Tóibín at his finest and most insightful.
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