The World The Flesh and Father Smith Author:Bruce Marshall This is the story of Father Smith, priest in a Scottish city -- of his friends, the exiled French nun, of the Bishop, of Monsignor O'Duffy who wages simple, violent war against simple sins, of Father Bonnyboat, the liturgical scholar, of all the people who come into the gentle orbit of Father Smith -- from Lady Ippecacuanha that tweedy convert, ... more »to the slut Annie who drives her husband to murder.
Three decades are covered, and the children the young priest baptized at the beginning of the book are off to success and failure, to marriages and to war, before the end.
Few stories have been written with greater gaiety and tenderness. No matter what one's faith (or Jack of it), there is music, wisdom, comfort, laughter in Father Smith's affectionate sojourn in this world of the flesh.« less