The Sparrow

A Novel

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Hardcover, 408 pages

English language

Published Sept. 9, 1996 by Villard.

ISBN:
978-0-679-45150-1
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OCLC Number:
34281380

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3 stars (3 reviews)

The Sparrow is a novel about a remarkable man, a living saint, a life-long celibate and Jesuit priest, who undergoes an experience so harrowing and profound that it makes him question the existence of God. This experience--the first contact between human beings and intelligent extraterrestrial life--begins with a small mistake and ends in a horrible catastrophe.

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2 stars

Starts off (too) slowly and takes a long time to get going, the author could have culled 100 pages without affecting the story much. There's an unexpected twist at the end but it's not worth slogging through 500 pages.

Read for the Manchester science fiction book club.

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Subjects

  • Science Fiction - Adventure
  • Religious - Science Fiction
  • American First Novelists
  • American Science Fiction And Fantasy
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Twenty-first century
  • Life on other planets
  • Science Fiction - General
  • Science Fiction
  • Christian - Science Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Fiction / General
  • Jesuits