The Priest: A Gothic Romance (Supernatural Minnesota) - Softcover

Disch, Thomas M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081667213X ISBN 13: 9780816672134

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2010

Synopsis

At the center of Thomas M. Disch's novel The Priest is Father Patrick Bryce, a Catholic priest with a present-day Minneapolis parish-and a pedophile past. He's spent time at a church-run retreat for priests of his type and returned "rehabilitated" and even better equipped to keep his vice active and hidden. That is, until the blackmail begins, and each demand tops the next. Fiendishly comic and darkly hypnotic, The Priest is a spellbinding work that builds at breakneck speed to its gripping, gruesome, and eerily romantic finale.

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From the Back Cover:

"An extraordinary feat of the imagination ... A superlative chiller with a surprisingly thought-provoking symbolic subtext and a remarkably evocative, often brilliant, style."

-- Washington Post Book World

"The M.D. is simply one of the best novels of horror-fantasy I've ever read. Thomas Disch has been writing wonderful tales of imagination for years now -- stories that sometimes amuse, sometimes sting, sometimes horrify, and sometimes manage to do all three at the same time -- but The M.D. is surely his magnum opus."

-- Stephen King

"A seductive premise ... as morally subversive as a Hitchcock movie ... The M.D. fully, and brilliantly, earns its subtitle: a horror story."

-- Entertainment Weekly

"Each new page, like an electric eel, is poised to shock."

-- Los Angeles Times

"I read Thomas M. Disch's The M.D. with pure delight ... A story that, regardless of its subtitle, breaks all the genre chains. It is suspenseful, engrossing, full of well-observed and convincing characters, steeped in irony, sly, often darkly hilarious yet with serious intentions that give it considerable impact."

-- Dean Koontz

"A truly stunning work of supernatural horror."

-- San Francisco Chronicle

"Resonate[s] with surprise and menace ... Surely the liveliest horror novel since Clive Barker's The Damnation Game."

-- USA Today

About the Author:

Thomas M. Disch (1940-2008) was a best-selling and prolific American science fiction writer and poet. He won several awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book in 1999.
Gregory Feeley is the author of many novellas and short stories, as well as the novel Arabian Wine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 081667213X
• ISBN 13: 9780816672134
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336