The Deposition of Father McGreevy - Tapa blanda

'Magical to the core. Read it and be smitten by this masterpiece as I was' -- Walter Abish 'Eerily compelling' * Elle * 'O'Doherty's eloquent proses conjures up snow and cold and isolation as clearly as it does small town spite and gossip...bone-chilling' * Atlantic Monthly * 'O'Doherty"s powerful and sometimes magical writing keeps a reader closely involved' -- Julian Moynahan * New-York Review of Books *

In a London pub in the 1950's, editor William Maginn is intrigued by a mention a the strange - and reputedly shameful - demise of a remote mountain village in County Kerry, where he was born. Maginn returns to Kerry and uncovers an astonishing tale: both the account of the destruction of a place and the way of life which once preserved Ireland's ancient traditions and the tragedy of an increasingly isolated village where all the women mysteriously die - leaving the priest, Father McGreevy, to cope with insoluble problems. As war rages through Europe, McGreevy struggles to preserve what remains of his parish, against the rough mountain elements and the grief and superstitions of its people, and the growing distrust of the town below.