Priestdaddy

A Memoir

Patricia Lockwood

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English

Penguin
03 May 2018

Biography; Memoirs; Religion & politics; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Ethical issues: pornography & obscenity; Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies

The hilarious and universally lauded memoir of life as the daughter of a gun-toting, all-American Catholic priest

When the expense of a medical procedure forces the 30-year-old Patricia to move back in with her parents, husband in tow, she must learn to live again with her family's simmering madness, and to reckon with the dark side of a childhood spent in the bosom of the Catholic Church. Her father is a gun-toting, all-American, frequently semi-naked priest who underwent a religious conversion after watching The Exorcist 70 times on a Navy submarine; her mother, who emerges as the book's real heart, is a woman preternaturally concerned with the various disasters that could be about to befall her loved ones - and any nearby babies - at all times. Told with a keen comic sensibility that packs a laugh on almost every page, this is at the same time a lyrical and affecting true story of how, having ventured into the underworld, we can emerge with our levity and our sense of justice intact.

By: Patricia Lockwood
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 258g
ISBN: 9780141984599
ISBN 10: 0141984597
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 03 May 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Patricia Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA and raised in all the worst cities of the Midwest. Her debut collection, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, was released in 2012 by Octopus Books; her second collection, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, was published by Penguin Books in 2017. Her poems have appeared widely, including in The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, Tin House and Poetry, and her writing on politics and literature has appeared in New Republic and The London Review of Books.

Reviews for Priestdaddy: A Memoir

Dazzling * Guardian * Snort-out-loud * Financial Times * Exceptional * Telegraph * Electric * New York Times * Extraordinary * Observer * Glorious * Sunday Times *