Passover Trilogy · Book 2
Ascent Into Hell
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 371
- ISBN-13
- 9780446349499
- Type
- novel
About this book
The trilogy's second book, published in 1983, runs 371 pages -- twenty pages longer than its predecessor -- and follows a cardinal's rise through Church politics.
Its place in Passover Trilogy
Ascent Into Hell is book 2 in the Passover Trilogy series. It follows Thy Brother's Wife. It is followed by Lord of the Dance. See the full Passover Trilogy reading order.
Andrew Greeley's first trilogy of novels, and among his earliest fiction, following Irish Catholic families across generations through crises of faith, ambition, and desire -- a young priest's temptation by his brother's wife in Thy Brother's Wife, a cardinal's rise through Church politics in Ascent Into Hell, and a further generational turn in Lord of the Dance. The trilogy set the template Greeley would return to across his fiction career: sharply observed Chicago Irish Catholicism, frank treatment of sexuality…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446349499