Aiming at Heaven, Getting the Earth The English Catholic Novel Today

Aiming At Heaven, Getting the Earth The English Catholic Novel Today argues that there is still vitality in the English Catholic novel. It analyses the fiction of four contemporary Catholic novelists Alice Thomas Ellis, David Lodge, Sara Maitland, and Piers Paul Read. It situates their work both within the tradition of the Catholic novel as it developed in France and England and within the changing post Vatican II Catholic Church.Crowe, Marian E. is the author of 'Aiming at Heaven, Getting the Earth The English Catholic Novel Today', published 2007 under ISBN 9780739116401 and ISBN 0739116401.