The Devil’s Advocate

Finalist, National Book Awards 1960 for Fiction

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ISBN 9780829421569
Loyola Press | William Morrow

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In an impoverished village in southern Italy, the enigmatic life and mysterious death of Giacomo Nerone has inspired talk of sainthood. Father Blaise Meredith, a dying English priest, is sent by the Vatican to investigate. As he tries to untangle the web of facts, rumors and outright lies that surround Nerone, The Devil’s Advocate reminds us how the power of goodness ultimately prevails over despair. The Devil’s Advocate was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the W.H. Heinemann Award of the Royal Society of Literature, and was made into a film.

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