![]() The upstart talent is still there perhaps it has been applied too quickly. The story doesn't hold together (or the reader's interest) as firmly as the earlier novel until the end which consists of a succession of militant retorts: Farragan's brother Jim and his wife Anna are blown up so is Father Edmund behind the altar and Farragan himself decides on his own destiny. Farragan's Retreat by Tom McHale 3.84 Rating details 32 ratings 9 reviews Farragan's Retreat follows a wealthy Irish-Catholic clan in Philadelphia in the context of the Vietnam War. His works include Principato, Farragan's Retreat (nominated for the National Book Award ), Alinsky's Diamond, School Spirit, The Lady from Boston, and Dear Friends. ![]() ![]() Assorted sequences fill in the mea culpable activities of the other Farragans: their mother, gone to her rest, after deliberately sending one son to his death Father Edmund, a whiskey priest sipping Chivas Regal in a monastery Farragan's wife Muriel who has remained chaste since the birth of her twins (or so he thinks) his young mistress, Marie. Farragan's Retreat Tom McHale (1941 March 30, 1982) was an American novelist. When first seen, Farragan, Arthur Farragan, is about to go off to Canada to kill his son Simon, a miscreant-draft-dodger-defector, particularly since one nephew has just returned in an unopened box and another without an arm. They lend themselves to much of this verbal and wildly excitable hassling within the hallowed confines of family and church where frequently McHale nips the shins under the cassock. ![]() 526), this takes place within the same precinct of Philadelphia's renegade irish Catholics. ![]()
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