Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood

The childhood of poet Patricia Lockwood was unusual in many respects. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange riddles and warnings 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. This 2017 Allen Lane Hardback is in good condition. DJ. Dust jacket torn at the spine, otherwise very good condition.

ISBN: 9781846149207 SKU: 1573821 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

SKU: 1573821
Location: Biography