The Edge of Sadness Jarrett “To children—as to artists—all life

“To children—as to artists—all life is metaphor

and that the affairs of the human family are subject to forces more elemental than those of supply and demand

A singular study of one of the twentieth century’s greatest historians

The edge of sadness was visible…”

the readings in The Book of the Blessed Virgin: Mother of God combine to offer a beautiful portrait of Our Lady as sancta Maria

The Edge of Sadness Jarrett “To children—as to artists—all lifeBy Edwin O'Connor Father Hugh Kennedy has come home. Newly sober, he is charged by his bishop with a derelict, dusty, and dying parish, in a decrepit part of the city. Quite content with his lot, Father Hugh is suddenly pulled back into a past world: the exuberant, turbulent, Irish American world in which he was born and raised. With one telephone call, old Charlie Carmody brings Father Hugh out of his hum drum, methodical priestly life, and gives him