Farragan's Retreat by Tom McHale5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() All of it is assertively alive.(Kirkus Review).See photos for additional content. McHale's novel is full of conviction as well as paradox and protest, and the props throughout are graphic representations of the struggle (the Corrigans are undertakers Principato's father dealt in caskets and tombs) which takes place in South Philadelphia. Will the old man die a recusant or did he really lunge for the Cross at the end? Will Principato escape the dingy, moneyed and marmoreal enclosure of his life with Cynthia who is actually as predatory as a piranha? Mr. A lovable, intractable, perhaps inviolable spirit-namely Principato's father-is dying of throat cancer he is the possessor of the Defiance, has stayed out of the Church for 35 years while telephoning in his sins every Friday night to a priest who says ""uh huh."" Now he has bequeathed that ineffable Defiance to his son Principato, a sallow, trapped ineffectual who has been condemned to the ""safe predictable misery"" of one Cynthia Corrigan, their five children, and her family of prelates. ![]() ![]() Principato is an inventive, resilient and inordinately sympathetic first novel staked out in the playing fields of the here and the hereafter and engaging in the sempiternal scrimmage between dogma and the spirit. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. (Book, 1971) Advanced Search Find a Library Cite/Export Cite/Export Copy a citation APA (6th ed.) Chicago (Author-Date, 15th ed.) Harvard (18th ed.) MLA (7th ed.) Turabian (6th ed. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. ![]()
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