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Priestdaddy / Patricia Lockwood.

Summary:

Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met--a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972." His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide. In Priestdaddy, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence--from an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested to her involvement in a cultlike Catholic youth group--with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents' household after a decade of living on their own. --Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781594633737
ISBN: 1594633738
Physical Description: 336 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introductory rites -- Meeting of the minds -- Low country -- Babies in limbo -- R&R circus -- Men of the cloth -- Dinner with the bishop -- Put it in print -- Touch of genius -- The cum queens of Hyatt Place -- Swimming hole -- Hart and hind -- Men of the cloth II: the clothening -- Blow, Gabriel, blow -- Voice -- I am a priest forever -- Abortion Barbie -- Missouri gothic -- Power and light -- Interior castle -- Island time.