Vicar of Sorrows - A. N. Wilson - Hardcover - 1st American ed

In this powerful novel that will confirm his reputation as one of Britain's brightest literary lights, A. N. Wilson recounts the downward spiral of Francis Kreer, a clergyman who does not believe in God and whose life starts to come apart at the seams. When his mother dies, Francis is shocked to discover that she had a lover and that he must share his inheritance with this (awful) man. Then Francis falls in love-painfully, absolutely-with an irresistable but most unsuitable young woman.A. N. Wilson traces Francis's descent through various circles of the English establishment, a tragi-comic journey that takes the hapless hero to the outer edges of both absurdity and despair.Wilson, A. N. is the author of 'Vicar of Sorrows - A. N. Wilson - Hardcover - 1st American ed' with ISBN 9780393036107 and ISBN 0393036103.