Patience of a Saint

Fülszöveg

This is the story of Red Kane, a man caught
in a dilemma of love. After twenty years of
marriage plagued by misunderstanding and
bitter resignation, Red finds himself falling
in love with his wife all over again —and at
the same time, pursued by an implacable,
attractive God.
Redmond R Kane, a popular Chicago
newspaper columnist and Pulitzer prize
winner, smokes and drinks too much, neg-
lects his kids, enjoys a mistress, is feared and
hated by his colleagues, and has shared
nothing but a bed with his wife for much
too long. At fifty-three, Red is an unhappy,
disgruntled cynic. But soon, all that changes.
On a Chicago street corner a speeding car
almost runs him down, and a moment of
divine grace —one in which God and Red's
green-eyed wife are somehow identified
with each other —almost knocks him un-
conscious. And then Red's real troubles
begin
They start with evil—plain, old-fashioned
wickedness in the person of aging politico
Harv Gunther. Red has come... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This is the story of Red Kane, a man caught
in a dilemma of love. After twenty years of
marriage plagued by misunderstanding and
bitter resignation, Red finds himself falling
in love with his wife all over again —and at
the same time, pursued by an implacable,
attractive God.
Redmond R Kane, a popular Chicago
newspaper columnist and Pulitzer prize
winner, smokes and drinks too much, neg-
lects his kids, enjoys a mistress, is feared and
hated by his colleagues, and has shared
nothing but a bed with his wife for much
too long. At fifty-three, Red is an unhappy,
disgruntled cynic. But soon, all that changes.
On a Chicago street corner a speeding car
almost runs him down, and a moment of
divine grace —one in which God and Red's
green-eyed wife are somehow identified
with each other —almost knocks him un-
conscious. And then Red's real troubles
begin
They start with evil—plain, old-fashioned
wickedness in the person of aging politico
Harv Gunther. Red has come up with evi-
dence that links Gunther to the disappear-
ance of a newsman twenty years earlier and
the recent murder of a teenage girl, but
proving it can cost Kane his career. He's
almost ready to close his files, go out for a
drink, and forget it all. Yet since his brush
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with death, Red finds himself inexorably
drawn down the path of saintliness and
driven to always "do the right thing."
Being a good husband to his wife Eileen
is at the top of Red's list. Without realizing
it, he's whistling "You're Irish and You're
Beautiful"—and dreaming of going home,
taking her in his arms, and making up for
all the sins of omission accumulated over
twenty years of their on-again, off-again
marriage. But what happens when he does?
Beautiful Irish Eileen thinks he's having a
breakdown, just as his newsroom co-
workers are sure he's finally gone over the
edge. Soon a psychiatrist is trying to have
him committed. God has turned Red's whole
existence upside down. Must he choose be-
tween his wife and his God? Or have they
joined in a plot to try the patience of a
saint?
As Red probes the depths of his new
emotions and renewed commitments with
the help of Msgr. Blackie Ryan, he also digs
into the dirty business of Harv Gunther and
in the process gravely endangers the lives
of everyone he loves. Andrew Greeley;
priest, sociologist, prolific religious writer,
and one of the world's bestselling authors;
now weaves a tale with all the spine-tingling
elements of a first-rate thriller, and an un-
forgettable portrait of an "everyman" and
a contemporary marriage. Here is the emo-
tional drama of a man realizing, perhaps
too late, that he needs one woman, his wife
— the best proof of God's living presence
he will ever find. Vissza