The Celibate

Informationen zum Autor Michael Arditti is a novelist, short story writer and critic. His novels are The Celibate (1993), Pagan and her Parents (Pagan's Father in the USA) (1996), Easter (2000), Unity (2005), A Sea Change (2006), The Enemy of the Good (2009), Jubilate (2011), The Breath of Night (2013), Widows and Orphans (2016), Of Men and Angels (2018) and The Anointed (2020). His short story collection, Good Clean Fun, was published in 2004. He was awarded a Harold Hyam Wingate scholarship in 2000, a Royal Literary Fund fellowship in 2001, an Oppenheim-John Downes memorial award in 2003 and Arts Council awards in 2004 and 2007. He was the Leverhulme artist in residence at the Freud museum in 2008. His novels have been short- and long-listed for several literary awards and Easter won the inaugural Waterstone's Mardi Gras award. In 2012 he was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the University of Chester. Klappentext The Celibate is the story of a young, unnamed ordinand with his mind full of God and his heart closed to love. "An exceptional book: at its core it combines the sexual with the spiritual."-Sunday Times. Vorwort The first published novel by the award-winning, bestselling and acclaimed Michael Arditti Zusammenfassung The first published novel by the award-winning, bestselling and acclaimed Michael Arditti

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The first published novel by the award-winning, bestselling and acclaimed Michael Arditti

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The Celibate is the story of a young, unnamed ordinand with his mind full of God and his heart closed to love. "An exceptional book: at its core it combines the sexual with the spiritual."-Sunday Times.

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The first published novel by the award-winning, bestselling and acclaimed Michael Arditti