Recital of the Dark Verses
A road novel, a coming-of-age tale, and a raunchy slapstick comedy that tells—in careening, charismatic prose—the (true) story of the theft of the body of Saint John of the Cross. In August 1592, a bailiff and his two assistants arrive at the monastery of Beda, with the secret task of transferring the remains of Saint John of the Cross, the...PaperbackSold Out
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