In 1940s Los Angeles, an unidentified murder victim is found
bisected in a shadowy lot. A catchy nickname is given her in
jest--"The Virgin Tramp"--and suddenly a "nice little homicide that
would have drifted off the front pages in a couple of days" becomes
a storm center. Two brothers, Tom and Des Spellacy, are at the
heart of this powerful novel of Irish-Catholic life in Southern
California just after World War II. Played in the film version by
Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro respectively, Tom is a homicide
detective and Des is a priest on the rise within the Church. The
murder investigation provides the background against which are
played the ever changing loyalties of the two brothers. Theirs is a
world of favors and fixes, power and promises, inhabited by priests
and pimps, cops and contractors, boxers and jockeys and lesbian
fight promoters and lawyers who know how to put the fix in. A
fast-paced and often hilarious classic of contemporary fiction,
True Confessions is about a crime that has no solutions, only
victims. More important, it is about the complex relationship
between Tom and Des Spellacy, each tainted with the guilt and
hostility that separate brothers.
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