The Jealous God
AUTHOR: John Braine
ISBN: B001JOKO98 BINDING: hardcover PAGES: 256
Year: 1964 Size: 128mm x 190mm x 24mm Condition: Our book has SOLD. Check on Amazon for a new or used copy.
DESCRIPTION: The Jealous God... Vincent Dungarvan is a reserved young schoolmaster whose life is a model of the same overt respectability that governs his Catholic family. He lives with his possessive mother, a despotic woman who has set her heart on his entering the priesthood whether he feels a vocation or not. Constantly on guard against the possibility of her son emulating his father's erotic tendencies, she has become the self-appointed watch-dog of his morals and her perpetual nagging makes even more miserable his claustrophobic existence. At the age of thirty, Vincent still sexually inexperienced, meets vivacious, warm-hearted divorcee, Laura Heycliffe and his life becomes a turmoil of love and hate. His family regard their love as illicit: for Laura is a protestant, and still a married woman in their eyes. Her mounting despair and the intolerable pressures that build up within the sterile drabness of Vincent's narrow society inevitably erupt uncontrollably, building up to a thrilling climax brilliantly described by a master craftsman. This intensely moving novel is all the more enthralling because it deals with real issues. It is written with compassion and a deep feeling for the north-country people whom the author knows so well. In the Jealous God, a novel the critics acclaim as even better than his remarkable best-seller, Room at the Top, John Braine portrays with consummate skill one man's desperate efforts tom reconcile an unyielding faith with some kind of happiness.
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