Title : The Shoes of the Fisherman ~ 374 pages
Author : Morris L. West
Book Type : Hardback
Publisher : William Morrow and Company
Edition : Book Club Edition
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number : n/a
ISBN Number : n/a
Copyright Date : 1963
Dimensions : 8 1/2" High x 5 3/4" Wide x 1 1/4" Thick
Inventory Number : 000-001-815
Original Retail Price : n/a
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Description : From the front and back flaps…
What happens to a twentieth-century man when he is crowned with the Triple Tiara and named Vicar of Christ, Vicegerent of the Almighty on this troubled planet?
This startling question is the point of the departure for The Shoes of the Fisherman.
The Papacy is the most paradoxical office in the world; the most absolute and yet the most limited: the richest in revenues but the poorest in personal return. It was founded by a Nazarene carpenter who owned noplace to rest his head, yet it is surrounded by more pomp and panoply than is seemly in this hungry world it owns no frontiers, yet is subject always to national intrigue and partisan pressure.
The man who accepts it claims Divine guarantee against error, yet is less assured of salvation than the meanest of his subjects. The keys of the kingdom dangle at his belt, yet he can find himself locked out foreer from the Peace of Election and the Communion of Saints. If he says he is not tempted by autocracy and ambition, he is a liar. If he does not walk sometimes in terror, and pray often in darkness, then he is a fool.
“I know – or at least I am beginning to know. I was elected this morning and tonight I am alone on the Mountain of Desolation. He whose Vicar I am hides His face from me. Those who shepherd I must be do not know me. The world is spread beneath me like a campaign map – and I see bale-fires on every frontier. There are blind eyes upturned, and a babel of voices invoking an Unknown…”
From this eloquent summary, Morris West has developed one of the most moving and challenging novels of recent times.
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