Happy Are the Poor in Spirit
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 295
- ISBN-13
- 9780515115024
- Type
- novel
About this book
Happy Are the Poor in Spirit is the 6th entry in Andrew M. Greeley's Blackie Ryan series, published in 1994 at 295 pages. In the reading order it comes after Happy Are the Peace Makers and before Happy Are Those Who Mourn.
Key facts about Happy Are the Poor in Spirit
Happy Are the Poor in Spirit is a novel by Andrew M. Greeley. Readers have had it since 1994. It runs to 295 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Happy Are the Poor in Spirit. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780515115024 to find the main one.
Happy Are the Poor in Spirit is book 6 of 18 in the Blackie Ryan series. The series has 18 published books. However, the series starts with Happy Are the Meek (1985).
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 Poor in Spirit is book 6 in the Blackie Ryan series. It follows Happy Are the Peace Makers. It is followed by Happy Are Those Who Mourn. 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 9780515115024