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Priestdaddy

A Memoir

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Priestdaddy

De : Patricia Lockwood
Lu par : Patricia Lockwood
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From Patricia Lockwood - a writer acclaimed for her wildly original voice - a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about having a married Catholic priest for a father.

Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met - a man who lounges in boxer shorts, who loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972". His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide.

In Priestdaddy, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence - from an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested to her involvement in a cultlike Catholic youth group - with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents' household after a decade of living on their own. Lockwood details her education of a seminarian who is also living at the rectory, tries to explain Catholicism to her husband, who is mystified by its bloodthirstiness and arcane laws, and encounters a mysterious substance on a hotel bed with her mother.

Lockwood pivots from the raunchy to the sublime, from the comic to the deeply serious, exploring issues of belief, belonging, and personhood. Priestdaddy is an entertaining, unforgettable portrait of a deeply odd religious upbringing and how one balances a hard-won identity with the weight of family and tradition.

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    Editors Select, May 2017

    I want to be careful about the way in which I write about this book. Not because the subject matter is scandalous (it's not), but because, like all beautifully complex things, it'd be easy to mislabel or to put Lockwood's memoir in a box, to diminish its magnificence and, ultimately, the spell it cast over me. It deserves more than that. So, I'll say this: Great writers are often lauded for having an original voice. Well, Lockwood has that and then some (including an amazing - and amazingly absurd - sense of humor). More importantly, she's an original thinker whose devotion to language and words and poetry - her primary trade - can be felt in every line, every turn of phrase, and every bit of confounding imagery that seems to reveal some hidden, intangible truth that normally exists just outside of fingertips' reach. —Doug, Audible Editor

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    "Patricia Lockwood's side-splitting Priestdaddy puts the poetry back in memoir. Her verbal verve creates a reading experience of effervescent joy, even as Lockwood takes you through some of her life's darker passages. Destined to be a classic, Priestdaddy is this year's must-read memoir." (Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club)
    "Beautiful, funny and poignant. I wish I'd written this book." (Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy)
    " Priestdaddy is a revelatory debut, a meditation on family and art that finds poetry in the unlikeliest things, including poetry. Patricia Lockwood's prose is nothing short of ecstatic; every sentence hums with vibrant, anarchic delight, and her portrait of her epically eccentric family life is funny, warm, and stuffed to bursting with emotional insight. If I could write like this, I would." (Joss Whedon)
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    I stumbled on Patricia Lockwood in the LRB whilst doing a deep dive on Rachel Cusk (who I stumbled on in a podcast I was never able to find again). I was particularly tickled by what Lockwood said about Edna O'Brien's hair, but for some reason I pegged this contributing editor in my head as a sort of mash-up between Joyce Carol Oates, Patricia Highsmith and Joan Didion. I was thus surprised and delighted to discover that she is in fact a young woman, with an extraordinarily fresh and interesting voice, and more thrilling still, very much alive, with a lifetime of writing yet ahead of her. I listened to her chatting on the LRB podcast with Thomas Jones about her encounter with the Pope (the Catholic one) and was fully seduced. Goodbye Cusk, it's not you, or your hair, it's Patricia Lockwood.

    Thence, straight to Audible and Priestdaddy. That this is read by Lockwood herself is almost essential for maximum, dialled-up-to-eleven enjoyment. The emphasis and comic timing any author brings to their own work is always a delight of course, but Patricia Lockwood's beautiful voice delivers only added joy.
    I could bang on all day long about what is exquisite and near-perfect about this clever, joyous, bitter book. I'll let you discover it for yourself. My title for this review tells you everything you need to know about how I feel about Priestdaddy. I galloped greedily through the first listen, the dogs profiting from ever-lengthening walks. As soon as I finished (devastated), I went straight back to the beginning and started it all over again. Now, should I also purchase a hard copy? Is a book in the hand worth two in the ear? I think I will.

    Magnificent, listened twice back-to-back

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