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Priestdaddy - A Memoir (Paperback)
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Priestdaddy - A Memoir (Paperback)
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List price R323
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'Priestdaddy caused a sensation when it hit bookshelves in 2017'
Vogue 'Glorious' Sunday Times 'Laugh-out-loud funny' The Times
'Extraordinary' Observer 'Exceptional' Telegraph 'Electric' New
York Times 'Snort-out-loud' Financial Times 'Dazzling' Guardian 'Do
yourself a favour and read this memoir!' BookPage WINNER OF THE
THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOUR The childhood of Patricia
Lockwood, the poet dubbed 'The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence,
Kansas' by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There
was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of
the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks
almost entirely in strange riddles and arnings of impending danger.
Above all, there was her gun-toting, guitar-riffing, frequently
semi-naked father, who underwent a religious conversion on a
submarine and found a loophole which saw him approved for the
Catholic priesthood by the future Pope Benedict XVI, despite
already having a wife and children. When an unexpected crisis
forces Lockwood and her husband to move back into her parents'
rectory, she must learn to live again with the family's simmering
madness, and to reckon with the dark side of her religious
upbringing. Pivoting from the raunchy to the sublime, from the
comic to the serious, Priestdaddy is an unforgettable story of how
we balance tradition against hard-won identity - and of how, having
journeyed in the underworld, we can emerge with our levity and our
sense of justice intact. 'Destined to be a classic . . . this
year's must-read memoir' Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club
'Irrepressible . . . joyous, funny and filthy . . . Lockwood blows
the roof off every paragraph' Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine
'Beautiful, funny and poignant. I wish I'd written this book' Jenny
Lawson, author of Furiously Happy 'A revelatory debut . . .
Lockwood's prose is nothing short of ecstatic . . . her portrait of
her epically eccentric family is funny, warm, and stuffed to
bursting with emotional insight' Joss Whedon 'Praise God, this is
why books were invented' Emily Berry, author of Dear Boy and
Stranger, Baby
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