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Priestdaddy
A Memoir
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The hilarious and universally lauded memoir of life as the daughter of a gun-toting, all-American Catholic priest.
When the expense of a medical procedure forces the 30-year-old Patricia to move back in with her parents, husband in tow, she must learn to live again with her family's simmering madness and to reckon with the dark side of a childhood spent in the bosom of the Catholic Church. Her father is a gun-toting, all-American, frequently semi-naked priest who underwent a religious conversion after watching The Exorcist 70 times on a Navy submarine. Her mother, who emerges as the book's real heart, is a woman preternaturally concerned with the various disasters that could be about to befall her loved onesβand any nearby babiesβat all times.
Told with a keen comic sensibility that packs a laugh on almost every page, Priestdaddy is at the same time a lyrical and affecting true story of how, having ventured into the underworld, we can emerge with our levity and our sense of justice intact.
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Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood receives high praise for its witty and vivid narrative. Reviewers highlight the memoir's humour, with descriptors such as "glorious" and "snort-out-loud." It's celebrated as an "extraordinary" and "dazzling" work, noted for its "exceptional" storytelling and "electric" prose.
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ISBN: 9780141984599
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 May 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 263g
Pages: 352
About the Author
Patricia Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA and raised in all the worst cities of the Midwest. Her debut collection, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, was released in 2012 by Octopus Books; her second collection, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, was published by Penguin Books in 2017. Her poems have appeared widely, including in The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, Tin House and Poetry, and her writing on politics and literature has appeared in New Republic and The London Review of Books.
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