The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe

Toibin, a "collapsed" Catholic, offers an odyssey into his inner self as he reckons with the religious demons of his past. Here are the rituals, the pilgrimages, the shrines, the fanatics, the charlatans and the sincerely devout Toibin encountered on his journeys.

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The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe

Toibin, a "collapsed" Catholic, offers an odyssey into his inner self as he reckons with the religious demons of his past. Here are the rituals, the pilgrimages, the shrines, the fanatics, the charlatans and the sincerely devout Toibin encountered on his journeys.

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The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe

The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe

by Colm Tóibín
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe

The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe

by Colm Tóibín

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Toibin, a "collapsed" Catholic, offers an odyssey into his inner self as he reckons with the religious demons of his past. Here are the rituals, the pilgrimages, the shrines, the fanatics, the charlatans and the sincerely devout Toibin encountered on his journeys.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780330373579
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication date: 05/04/2001
Edition description: New
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster; as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022—2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.
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