Patience of a Saint
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 446
- ISBN-13
- 9780816143641
- Type
- novel
About this book
Patience of a Saint is the 3rd entry in Andrew M. Greeley's Time Between the Stars series, published in 1987 at 446 pages. It follows Angels of September and precedes Rite of Spring in the reading order.
Key facts about Patience of a Saint
Andrew M. Greeley wrote Patience of a Saint, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1987. The book has 446 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780816143641 to find the main one.
Patience of a Saint is book 3 of 7 in the Time Between the Stars series. The series has 7 published books. However, the series starts with Virgin and Martyr (1985).
Additionally, Andrew M. Greeley writes Passover Trilogy, Blackie Ryan 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 Time Between the Stars
Patience of a Saint is book 3 in the Time Between the Stars series. It follows Angels of September. It is followed by Rite of Spring. See the full Time Between the Stars reading order.
A loosely connected run of seven contemporary novels set mostly among Chicago's Irish Catholic community, unified more by theme and setting than by a fixed cast: Andrew Greeley uses each book to explore grace, sin, and redemption through romantic and family entanglements, often with a mystical or explicitly supernatural undercurrent (Angels of September pairs its love story with an actual guardian angel). A younger version of Blackie Ryan, the priest-detective of Greeley's other main series, makes cameo…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780816143641