The Edge of Sadness Jarrett A singular study of one

A singular study of one of the twentieth century’s greatest historians

“To children—as to artists—all life is metaphor

The edge of sadness was visible…”

Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church / St

“The one who is righteous by faith will live

The Edge of Sadness Jarrett A singular study of oneBy Edwin O'Connor Father Hugh Kennedy has come home. Newly sober, he is charged by his bishop with a derelict, dusty, and dying parish, in a decrepit part of the city. Quite content with his lot, Father Hugh is suddenly pulled back into a past world: the exuberant, turbulent, Irish American world in which he was born and raised. With one telephone call, old Charlie Carmody brings Father Hugh out of his hum drum, methodical priestly life, and gives him