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The Conduct of Saints portrays a battleground on which power, God, sex, and the devil collide in the impoverished city of Rome during May and June of 1945. The German occupation of the Eternal City has ended, the war in Europe is over, the atomic bomb has yet to fall on Japan, and Rome is under the jurisdiction of the victors: the American, British, and French Allied Control Commission. An American Vatican prelate and lawyer, Brendan Doherty, is involved in two crusades. Abhorring capital punishment, he means to avert the execution of the Nazi collaborator Pietro Koch. Also, as devil's advocate, Doherty intends to prove the hypocrisy of Alessandro Serenelli, the man who forty years before murdered Maria Goretti. Converted by a vision, Serenelli has spent his life, in prison and out, promoting the beatification of his victim. Doherty--memory tormented, hard drinking, both angry and compassionate, a moral street fighter for what he is sure is right--feels guilty for having done too little to save the city's Jews from Auschwitz. He engages in his causes and quarrels with Rome's pre-dolce vita, postwar society--people both fictional and historical, like Alessandro Serenelli, Maria Goretti, Pietro Koch, Pope Pius XII, and film director Luchino Visconti--until he comes to a reckoning with himself and with the serene, unshakable saint-maker Serenelli.

About the Author :
Christopher Davis, fiction, nonfiction, and drama author, has taught creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr College and has received a National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Career Award. David Colacci is an actor and director who has directed and performed in prominent theaters nationwide. As a narrator, he has recorded more than one hundred audiobooks, earned numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards, and been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award.

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"The Conduct of Saints captures the time and the place; it is a profoundly atmospheric novel. More important, it presents an unforgettable cast of characters. Once again Davis' work commands our attention." -- "Huffington Post" "The Conduct of Saints is a compelling, complex, character-driven story. The writer draws us into the halls of the Vatican, into the spartan and isolated or secretly lavish quarters of its troubled inhabitants, into the inner circle of people who can buy their way in and out of critical situations." -- "New York Journal of Books" "Historical fiction, set in Rome in 1945 during the fraught post-war period. With many characters based on real figures, including Pope Pius XII, this book has elements of a thriller...A strong example of an uncommon type of historical fiction, appealing to readers who like to see guilt punished or forgiven." -- "Kirkus Reviews"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781470879884
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1470879883
  • Publisher Date: 15 May 2013
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Height: 170 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 340 gr


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