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The Final Retreat - A Novel (Hardcover)
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The Final Retreat - A Novel (Hardcover)
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List price R436
Loot Price R356
Discovery Miles 3 560
You Save R80 (18%)
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At the heart of The Final Retreat lies the question of how far the
idea of a priest as a 'wounded healer' can be stretched. It is
written as a diary-cum-memoir by Father Joseph, a middle-aged
priest whose faith and life are in tatters, who is sent on an
eight-day silent retreat by his kindly, sympathetic bishop. Apart
from short daily meetings with a spiritual director, he speaks to
no one. But he writes: page after page, exploring the state of his
soul, the loss of his vocation, his sexual addiction, and the
events which are destroying his life. Influenced by Stephen Hough's
other life as a concert pianist and composer, the book's structure
echoes a complex musical composition, with returning themes and
motifs as the story unfolds. Melodies are hinted at rather than
fully sung. Ideas are deliberately left incomplete. Hough leaves
readers to fill in the blanks and experience the work through their
own unique perspectives. Beautifully produced, The Final Retreat is
a visual and creative masterpiece that will linger in the mind like
a haunting melody.
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