Black Robe - Softcover

Moore, Brian

3.78

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786695030 ISBN 13: 9781786695031

Publisher: Apollo Library, 2017

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Father Laforgue embarks on a desperate mission to relieve an isolated priest in the wilds of seventeenth-century New France. To Laforgue, his Algonkian Indian guides are savage pagans in dire need of salvation. To the Algonkian Indians, Catholic priests are greedy, selfish, Norman sorcerers.

In weaving a tautly suspenseful tale of physical and spiritual adventure, Brian Moore's Black Robe rivals Conrad's Heart of Darkness in its meditation on good and evil in the human heart.

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Review:

'An extraordinary novel. Part adventure story, part the life of a saint, part parable, it is an exemplary act of imagination in which Brian Moore has brought vividly to life a radically different world and populated it with men and women wholly unlike us ... We put Mr. Moore's novel down and look at ourselves and our places differently' New York Times.

'A dark, turbulent dream of a book' --Time Out.

'A remarkable book' --Anita Brookner.

'Compulsive reading' --Sunday Telegraph.

Book Description:

A Jesuit priest and his aide are guided through the wilds of New France by Algonkian Indians. 'A dark, turbulent dream of a book' Time Out.

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