The Devil's Advocate
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the sun-scorched villages of post-war southern Italy, a dying English priest is dispatched by the Vatican on a mission that will unravel his deepest convictions — to investigate the life of a man the local peasants believe to be a saint. The Devil's Advocate, published in 1959, chronicles the spiritual odyssey of Monsignor Blaise Meredith, a man confronting his own mortality while tasked with dismantling the faith of others, a role that forces him to reckon with the very existence of grace, guilt, and redemption. Morris West constructs a taut moral drama that is at once an intimate character study and a sweeping meditation on the nature of belief in a fractured, secular world. West's prose is measured and luminous, wielding the austere beauty of classical storytelling to illuminate the tensions between institutional religion and raw human spirituality. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this novel cemented West's reputation as one of the twentieth century's most incisive chroniclers of conscience, drawing comparisons to Graham Greene in his unflinching examination of faith under pressure. As Meredith peels back the layers of a dead man's life — and, by extension, his own — the reader is left to ask: what do we owe to truth, and what do we owe to hope?
Author: Morris West
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the sun-scorched villages of post-war southern Italy, a dying English priest is dispatched by the Vatican on a mission that will unravel his deepest convictions — to investigate the life of a man the local peasants believe to be a saint. The Devil's Advocate, published in 1959, chronicles the spiritual odyssey of Monsignor Blaise Meredith, a man confronting his own mortality while tasked with dismantling the faith of others, a role that forces him to reckon with the very existence of grace, guilt, and redemption. Morris West constructs a taut moral drama that is at once an intimate character study and a sweeping meditation on the nature of belief in a fractured, secular world. West's prose is measured and luminous, wielding the austere beauty of classical storytelling to illuminate the tensions between institutional religion and raw human spirituality. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this novel cemented West's reputation as one of the twentieth century's most incisive chroniclers of conscience, drawing comparisons to Graham Greene in his unflinching examination of faith under pressure. As Meredith peels back the layers of a dead man's life — and, by extension, his own — the reader is left to ask: what do we owe to truth, and what do we owe to hope?