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The apparent serenity of parish life in Pendeen and Morvah is disturbed when 20-year-old Lenny Barnes takes his own life in the presence of Father Barnaby Thomas the charismatic indefatigable local priest whose enduring service has made him a popular member of his Cornish community. ; Though Lenny's death is publicly mourned the tragedy continues to wound those closest to him and its reverberations seem to threaten a fissure between the Parish and its inhabitants. And yet Lenny's death is simply Pendeen and Morvah's most visible misfortune: beneath the surface of the parish newsletter in the life of Barnaby's wife Dorothy in that of his son Jim in that of their neighbours Modest Carlsson and Nuala Barnes and in particular in the life of Father Barnaby himself lies vast inarticulate sadness. ; In what is more an echo-chamber than a sequel Patrick Gale returns us to the landscape of NOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION unfurling the complex web of a Cornish community with an empathy that touches clairvoyance and a sure eye for significant mundanity. A PERFECTLY GOOD MAN is the faithful register of a community's fortunes its gentle malignance and one priest's struggle to live virtuously.
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The new novel from Patrick Gale, author of Richard & Judy-bestseller 'Notes from an Exhibition', returning readers to his beloved Cornish coastline. 'Do you need me to pray for you now for a specific reason?' 'I'm going to die.' 'We're all going to die. Does dying frighten you?' 'I mean I'm going to kill myself.' When 20-year-old Lenny Barnes, paralysed in a rugby accident, commits suicide in the presence of Barnaby Johnson, the much-loved priest of a West Cornwall parish, the tragedy's reverberations open up the fault-lines between Barnaby and his nearest and dearest -- the gulfs of unspoken sadness that separate them all. Across this web of relations scuttles Barnaby's repellent nemesis -- a man as wicked as his prey is virtuous. Returning us to the rugged Cornish landscape of 'Notes from an Exhibition', Patrick Gale lays bare the lives and the thoughts of a whole community and asks us: what does it mean to be good?
- 0007465084
- 9780007465088
- Patrick Gale
- 24 May 2012
- Fourth Estate
- Paperback (Book)
- 416
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