Priestdaddy
Lockwood, Patricia2018
Book
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 ones - and any nearby babies - at all times. Told with a keen comic sensibility that packs a laugh on almost every page, this 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.
Main title:
Priestdaddy / Patricia Lockwood.
Author:
Lockwood, Patricia, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2018.©2017
Collation:
336 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017."A memoir" -- cover.
ISBN:
9780141984599 (pbk)9780141984599 (paperback)
Dewey class:
811.6
Language:
English
Related title:
Priestdaddy [electronic resource] : A Memoir
Subject:
BRN:
727661
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | -Biography | BIOG 811.6 LOCK | Available |
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Biography | BIOG 811.6 LOCK | Available |
| Library at the Dock | -Biography | BIOG 811.6 LOCK | Available |
| North Melbourne Library | -Biography | BIOG 811.6 LOCK | On loan - Due: 29 Jul 2026 |
| Southbank Library | -Biography | BIOG 811.6 LOCK | Available |