North of Hope: A Novel - Softcover

Hassler, Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345410106 ISBN 13: 9780345410108

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1996

Synopsis

Father Frank Healy returns after twenty years in the service of the Church to the Basswood Reservation, home of the Ojibway Indians, where he encounters Libby Girard, a woman from his past who pulls him into a world of drugs, alcoholism, and death

About this title

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 the Author:

Jon Hassler (1933–2008) was an award-winning author of eleven novels, including Dear James and North of Hope, two story collections, and three plays. He has been described as "a writer good enough to restore your faith in fiction" by The New York Times Book Review and "one of America’s most completely satisfying novelists" by The Cleveland Plain Dealer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0345410106
• ISBN 13: 9780345410108
• Binding: Paperback