{"product_id":"2026200016257-secondhand-the-devils-advocate","title":"The Devil's Advocate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the sun-scorched hill villages of post-war Calabria, southern Italy, a dying English priest is sent on what may be his final mission: to investigate the cause for sainthood of a man the local peasants already revere as a martyr. Morris West's The Devil's Advocate chronicles the spiritual and moral awakening of Monsignor Blaise Meredith, a reserved Vatican official who, confronted with his own mortality and the raw, desperate faith of the rural poor, must question everything he has ever believed about grace, sin, and redemption.\n\nA landmark of mid-twentieth-century Catholic fiction, the novel presents a richly layered meditation on doubt, conscience, and the institutional machinery of the Church set against the visceral beauty of the Italian landscape. West writes with precision and compassion, drawing characters of extraordinary complexity — peasants, partisans, artists, and priests — each caught in their own private reckoning with God. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Devil's Advocate cemented West's reputation as one of the foremost storytellers of his generation, and its central question — what does it truly mean to be holy? — continues to resonate long after the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342773985499,"sku":"2026200016257-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/eb35099a-43d2-4fd6-83b0-173cfd428613.png?v=1790049096","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016257-secondhand-the-devils-advocate","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}