skaficionado reviewed The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (Ballantine reader's circle)
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448 pages
English language
Published Sept. 8, 1997 by Ballantine Books.
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The Sparrow is a novel about a remarkable man, a living saint, a life-long celibate and Jesuit priest, who undergoes an experience so harrowing and profound that it makes him question the existence of God. This experience--the first contact between human beings and intelligent extraterrestrial life--begins with a small mistake and ends in a horrible catastrophe.From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects
- Jesuits -- Fiction.
- Life on other planets -- Fiction.
- Twenty-first century -- Fiction.