The Preacher's Boy
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Publisher Description
From Algonquin Books, the original publisher...
In this vivid novel of a father's and son's love for each other, Terry Pringle probes deeply into the problems and meanings of young manhood, frustrated expectations, and clashing modes of religious and social values and assumptions.
From reviews and recognition...
Best Books Young Adult -- American Library Association
Notable Book of the Year -- New York Times
"The Preacher's Boy may be the first-ever Southern Baptist sex comedy." --New York Times Book Review
"As true as the clink of a coin in the plate on Sunday morning." --Kirkus Reviews
"A welcome deliverance from the dark world of TV preachers and numb ritual. Pringle conducts it all with masterful skill." --Spectrum
"One of those books that keeps you laughing while you are reading, and leaves you thinking when you are through." --Winston-Salem Journal
"A million laughs" --Chattanooga Times
"Bawdy and entertaining" --Publishers Weekly
"This is my favorite kind of book -- a comedy, often blisteringly funny, that's also fundamentally serious." --Raleigh Spectator
"Frequently hilarious...a rare treat" --Macon Telegraph and News
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It's not easy to be a preacher's son in a town chock-full of people happy to inform your Baptist father of every sin you've committed and a few they wish you'd try your hand at. The daily battles between Michael Page and his upright father spill out the doors of the church into every aspect of their lives. In this bawdy, entertaining second novel, Pringle (This Is the Child) writes with all the verveand, unfortunately, lack of balanceof a TV evangelist running at full steam. Brother Page wants to be seen as a man whose "son always had one ear attuned for the sound of his father's fingers snapping''; instead he's saddled with a boy who takes the Lord's name in vain almost religiously, stubbornly insists on watching devil-inspired TV programs and finds a girlfriend who aims to sing for a rock 'n' roll band. The seemingly ceaseless war between the two is nicely echoed by Michael's personal search for faith, love and a way to fit into the world on his own terms.
