Humble Powers: Three Novelettes - 8101

The best description of Humble Powers is that given by its own author. It is “a triptych whose panels illustrate in settings of the recent past certain humble powers as old as mankind.” In these three novellettes, these powers are qualified by the virtue of humility, and thus do they find their place within the context of an uninterrupted and universal Christianity, through which they speak in these stories. Illustrating the power of faith is “The Devil in the Desert”: old Father Louis confronts the Adversary in the desert of the Rio Grande country; the power of love, “One Red Rose for Christmas”: a nun and an orphan contend with the torment of loneliness at Yuletide; and the power of sacrifice, “To the Castle”: an Army platoon and its chaplain must capture a medieval castle from the Nazis so the Allied forces can advance on Rome. Flannery O’Connor, reviewing Humble Powers, marks the rarity of “fiction about people with affirmative values who triumph by the exercise of virtue.” “Such fiction,” she concludes, “is indeed rare because it is the most difficult to write, but Humble Powers by Mr. Horgan should prove at least that it can be found.”
ASIN: 1685951767
VSKU: BVV.1685951767.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Horgan, Paul
Binding: Paperback