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| 4-Star Comedy. 1950's ultimate boys' school story told as never before. Boys go to seminary. Boys meet priests. Boys must decide identity. A self-help novel of esteem for "Anyone Who Has Ever Had to Make a Choice." You needn't be Catholic to enjoy this coming-of-age Fictional Memoir. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| In this new, authentic, period-novel of a boy's life at Misericordia Seminary. Ryan O'Hara, age 14 to 24, narrates his own lively story of imperial Rector Karg, disciplinarian Father Gunn, tart Father Polistina, and rebel-priest Father Chris Dryden "who knows Fellini and JFK." Strong characters and snappy dialog propel plot conflict forward keeping boys-school location fresh. Storytelling author gives each ensemble character, hero or villain, student or priest, man or woman, a rich back story. (Black civil rights of the 60's as well as three interesting women characters open this story out of the seminary and onto the hot streets of Chicago.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jack Fritscher, recruited at age 14, attended The Pontifical College Josephinum from September 4, 1953 to December 15, 1963. Jack Fritscher exited the Josephinum , age 24, after nearly 11 years. He was salutatorian of his college class, 1961; assistant editor and writer for the Josephinum Review; and received the four minor orders of Lector, Porter, Exorcist, and Acolyte. His new comic novel--a fictional memoir--about true-life in the Golden Age of Catholic Seminaries in the 1950s is published by Palm Drive Publishing.
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"I was, for 6 years, a schoolmate of Bernard Cardinal Law of Boston. While this novel is fiction, it addresses the cover-ups seminary culture institutionalized internally as a way to prevent publicity and scandal."
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