North of Hope - Hardcover

Hassler, Jon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345369106 ISBN 13: 9780345369109

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1990

Synopsis

Minnesotan Frank Healey had chosen his love of God and priesthood over his love for Libby Girard, but twenty years later, he meets Libby again, with her alcoholic husband and abused daughter, and life begins again

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North Of Hope

From the Back Cover:

“Hassler’s brilliance has always been his ability to achieve the depth of real literature through such sure-handed, no-gimmicks, honest language that the result appears effortless.”—Richard Russo, New York Times Book Review

“Hassler has tapped every pulse with his pen. This is his sixth novel, and it is great.”
—Detroit Free Press

Master storyteller Jon Hassler draws us into the vividly rendered, emotionally charged world of Father Frank Healy, a priest hoping
to reawaken a vocation that he fears is leaking away. Working at a mission on an Ojibway reservation in Northern Minnesota, Frank unexpectedly encounters his old high school girlfriend, Libby, and is swept up in a gripping drama of temptation, crime, and love that shows him how wounded hearts are healed. This absorbing novel, among Hassler’s finest, is a beautifully told tale of blighted spirits restored by the power of hope.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0345369106
• ISBN 13: 9780345369109
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1