Facing Wind by Murdoch Benedict Rev (1 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Canadian Edition. 168pp. Beige cloth with fine gold lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Illustrated DJ clean and without edgewear, showing only light bumping to head. Duodecimo. Born in Chatham, NB in1886, Benedict J. Murdoch was ordained in 1911. Father Murdoch's early years in priesthood were given to the pastoral ministry in New Brunswick. During WWI he served as chaplain and from those harrowing years came his best-known book, The Red Vineyard. The ill effects of the war forced him to give up pastoral duties and in 1932, he retired to spend several years at Bartibogue, where he produced most of his novels and meditative writings by which he has been recognized as one of the leading prose stylists of Canada. Facing Into The Wind, his tenth and last book arrived from the press on the very day of his death. - [Irish Canadian Cultural Association of New Brunswick]. …