Happy Are the Meek
- Published
- 1 January 1985
- Pages
- 264
- ISBN-13
- 9780708829684
- Type
- novel
About this book
Happy Are the Meek is the novel that launches Andrew M. Greeley's Blackie Ryan series, first published in 1985, running 264 pages. It precedes Happy Are the Clean of Heart in the reading order.
Key facts about Happy Are the Meek
Happy Are the Meek is a novel by Andrew M. Greeley. Readers have had it since 1985. It runs to 264 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Happy Are the Meek. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780708829684 to find the main one.
Happy Are the Meek is book 1 of 18 in the Blackie Ryan series. The series has 18 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Andrew M. Greeley writes Passover Trilogy, Time Between the Stars and Angel Fire, plus 3 more series. Those series sit on our contemporary fiction, mystery and contemporary fantasy shelves.
About Andrew M. Greeley
Andrew M. Greeley (1928-2013) was a Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, and one of the best-selling novelists of his era, publishing more than fifty novels alongside a parallel academic career studying American Catholicism. See every Andrew M. Greeley book in order.
Its place in Blackie Ryan
Happy Are the Meek is book 1 in the Blackie Ryan series. It is followed by Happy Are the Clean of Heart. See the full Blackie Ryan reading order.
Father John "Blackie" Ryan is a deceptively mild, owlishly bespectacled Chicago priest -- rector of a cathedral parish, later an auxiliary bishop and archbishop -- who solves murders among Chicago's Irish Catholic elite with a quiet, observational cunning that his unassuming manner tends to hide from suspects and colleagues alike. Andrew Greeley wrote eighteen Blackie Ryan novels over more than two decades, moving the character up through the Church hierarchy as the series progressed -- the earlier books use the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780708829684