Mr Fortune's Maggot (Warner Sylvia Townsend)(Paperback / softback) - diskuze

''Witty, poetic, clairvoyant'' John UpdikeThe Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey branch of Lloyds Bank, has found his vocation: to convert the inhabitants of the remote tropical island of Fanua to Christianity. Even when everyone except for a young boy called Lueli remains indifferent to his preaching, Mr Fortune''s good spirits cannot be dampened - until one day his faith is put to a terrible test.''This quizzical tale is so intensely moving'' Gillian Beer, New Statesman''Original, elegant and hypnotically strange'' Miranda Seymour, The New York Times''Sylvia Townsend Warner pu
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