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Article: Greeley's `Saint' needs a patient editor
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 4, 1987
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Patience of a SaintBy Andrew Greeley. Warner. $18.95.
If I were Andrew Greeley's editor, I would tell him this: You
are a priest and sociologist, but when you write a novel what you
want to be first of all is a novelist. Obviously you're on to
something: the public has responded to your books' fusion of the
carnal and the divine. Even so, you have a ways to go.
Your device this time around - a world-weary newspaper columnist
suddenly reawakened by God to his own compassion and to an erotic
love for his wife - is full of possibilities. But that's only saying
there's a core of material here strong enough to justify the work you
didn't do. States of literary grace, unlike your hero's, do ...