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After a nervous collapse while serving at the altar, his college principal sends him on a placement to London where he enters an unfamiliar world of outcasts, down-and-outs, rent boys, religious fundamentalists and people with AIDS. In increasing despair, he embarks on a journey through the world of Jack the Ripper, the devastation of the Great Plague and the mysteries of his own family. As the past and present come full-circle, he finally understands the true meaning of Passion. This is an intelligent and emotive novel, potent with atmosphere and rich in ideas and insights. It employs a unique fictional structure which integrates the contemporary and the historical, the personal and the theological, the comic and the polemic in a revelatory way. On its initial publication, it was hailed as the debut of a major literary talent.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Celibate
• Author: Michael Arditti
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781906413224
• ISBN: 1906413223
• ID: 04324856
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Weight: 318 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 130 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. January 2014

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