Hadrian The Seventh

Peter Luke

ISBN 10: 0573011680 / ISBN 13: 9780573011689

Published by Samuel French Ltd, 1968

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Contrite priests suddenly bestow Holy Orders on a wretched failure who was expelled from the seminary for lack of a true vocation. He is soon in Rome with his bishop to elect a new Pope. The stymied conclave elects the dedicated new priest: Hadrian VII. The new Pope decides to sell Vatican art treasures to finance feeding the world's poor. He smokes on the throne and entertains old friends like his landlady and new ones like a seminarian who is having a hard go of it until an assassin puts an end to Hadrian VII.2 women, 26 men.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hadrian The Seventh
• Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0573011680
• ISBN 13: 9780573011689
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 140H x 4D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 4 millimeters depth
• Weight: 97 grams

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Synopsis

Contrite priests suddenly bestow Holy Orders on a wretched failure who was expelled from the seminary for lack of a true vocation. He is soon in Rome with his bishop to elect a new Pope. The stymied conclave elects the dedicated new priest: Hadrian VII. The new Pope decides to sell Vatican art treasures to finance feeding the world's poor. He smokes on the throne and entertains old friends like his landlady and new ones like a seminarian who is having a hard go of it until an assassin puts an end to Hadrian VII.2 women, 26 men

Review

Extraordinarily alive ... a first-rate book (D.H. Lawrence)

One of the most extraordinary achievements in English literature (A.J.A. Symons)

A brilliant fantasy self-portrait (London Review of Books)

A novel like no other (Weekly Standard)