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Priestdaddy, a memoir, Patricia Lockwood

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Priestdaddy, a memoir, Patricia Lockwood

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Priestdaddy

Responsibility statement

Patricia Lockwood

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed 'The Smutty Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas' by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange riddles and warnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her gun-toting, guitar-riffing, frequently semi-naked father, who underwent a religious conversion on a submarine and found a loophole which saw him approved for the Catholic priesthood by the future Pope Benedict XVI, despite already having a wife and children. Priestdaddy is a story of how we balance tradition against hard-won identity - and of how, having journeyed in the underworld, we can emerge with our levity and our sense of justice intact. -- Publisher

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