Passover Trilogy · Book 3
Lord of the Dance
- Published
- 1 January 1984
- Pages
- 401
- ISBN-13
- 9780816137978
- Type
- novel
About this book
Lord of the Dance closed the trilogy in 1984 as its longest volume, at 401 pages, carrying the family saga's themes of faith, ambition, and desire into a further generational turn.
Its place in Passover Trilogy
Lord of the Dance is book 3 in the Passover Trilogy series. It follows Ascent Into Hell. 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 9780816137978