7.2 /10 1 Votes
Language English Pages 240 pp Originally published 1968 Preceded by Bring Larks and Heroes Country Australia | 3.6/5 Goodreads Publication date 1968 ISBN 0-207-95046-6 Followed by The Survivor Genres Novel, Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Angus and Robertson, Australia Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Similar Thomas Keneally books, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968) is a novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally. It won the Miles Franklin Award in 1968.
Contents
Story outline
After studying overseas for some years a young priest, James Maitland, returns to Australia to teach at a seminary.
Critical reception
In The Canberra Times, John N. Molony is impressed with the book but finds a number of problems with it: "The heart of the novel is about belief, but for this reviewer the transplant didn't work. It is hard to say about a Keneally that his theme was too big for him and that he couldn't incarnate his problem in living characters. Yet in this instance they do not measure up."
Kirkus Reviews found something more in the book: 'Keneally's rather existential points are made with delicacy, at times with a warm, broad humor, and Father James is a vigorous, attractive priest. A thoughtful and sentient book."