Displaying 1 of 1 2023 Format: Book Author: Tóibín, Colm, 1955- author. Title: A guest at the feast : essays / Colm Tóibín. Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Scribner, 2023. ©2023 Description: x, 323 pages ; 22 cm Summary: "From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature"-- Provided by publisher. Subjects: Tóibín, Colm, 1955- Authors, Irish -- 21st century -- Biography. Cancer -- Patients -- England -- London -- Biography. Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Popes -- Biography. Religion in literature. Travel writing. Ireland -- Social life and customs. Venice (Italy) Genre: Autobiographies. Biographies. Essays. Travel writing. Book reviews. Other Title: Essays. Selections Contents: Part one. Cancer: My part in its downfall -- A guest at the feast -- A brush with the law -- Part two. The paradoxical pope -- Among the flutterers -- The Bergoglio smile: Pope Francis -- The Ferns report -- Part three. Putting religion in its place: Marilynne Robinson -- Issues of truth and invention: Francis Stuart -- Snail slow: John McGahern -- Epilogue. Alone in Venice. ISBN: 9781476785202 1476785201 Other Number: 1334003062 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 999624 # Local items in: 2 # System items in: 2 Call Number: 824 Toibin Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
