The Edge Of Sadness Edwin Oconnor by Edwin O'connor 9780829429596, 082942959X instant download after payment.

Father Hugh Kennedy is a recovering alcoholic, committed to his vocation yet struggling with the demands of it. As he returns to Boston to repair his damaged priesthood, he is drawn into the unruly world of the Carmody's, a prosperous Irish family teeming with passion and riddled with secrets. The Edge of Sadness is ultimately the story of spiritual aridity and loneliness giving way to grace and hope.

"A deeply felt and eloquently expressed work . . . A quiet, gentle novel of considerable insight and charm... "  - Library Journal

"...It is a sensitive handling of difficult themes; there is a good deal of self-searching here, much of the past comes out in flashbacks, and there is immense vitality in the interplay of characters. The story is, perhaps, thin; the interest lies largely in the sensitive probing of basic human values rather than tenets of the faith. Humour is often poignant, implicit rather than direct. The book is unlikely to have the wide popularity of the earlier one, but shows considerable maturing on the part of its author."  -  Kirkus Reviews

Edwin O'Connor was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel The Edge of Sadness (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his novels concerned the Irish-American experience and often dealt with the lives of politicians and priests.