The Shoes of the Fisherman

Morris L. West

Gale, Jun 1, 1991 - Fiction - 434 pages

A new pope has been elected and there are many problems he must solve, including a confrontation with the Soviet leader who was his jailor in a Siberian prison camp

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A superb book. Centred on the papacy and world politics, it examines many of the great spiritual and religious themes. In passing it reminds us how real the fear of nuclear war was in the 1960s, when ...

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I remember reading this book years ago and loving it. I first got acquainted with it through an abridged version put out by Reader's Digest. Later I found the complete book and enjoyed it even more.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 39
• Section 3: 47

About the author

Morris West was born in 1916 in St Kilda, Melbourne. At the age of thirteen, he left home to study with the Christian Brothers Order in Sydney, but left in 1939 after 12 years, before taking his final vows. He was fluent in Italian and French, and taught modern languages and mathematics in New South Wales and Tasmania in his twenties. He spent four years code-breaking as a cipher officer in the AIF, and then for a decade he concentrated on producing and writing radio plays. West's first novel was published in 1945 and he began writing full time in the 1950s. He went to Italy were he went undercover with Father Mario Borelli, who was working with street urchins, and wrote The Children of the Sun, published in 1957. In 1959, following six months as Vatican correspondent for The Daily Mail, he published The Devil's Advocate, which won the William Heinemann Award of the Royal Society, the National Brotherhood Award of the National Council of Christians and Jews as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Award. Shoes of a Fisherman, the first of The Papal Series, which included The Clowns of God, Lazarus and Eminence, won the Best-Sellers Paperback of the Year Award in 1965. West helped to found the Australian Society of Authors, was chairman of the National Book Council, chairman of the National Library of Australia and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He was made member of the order of Australia (MBE) in 1985 and officer of the order of Australia (AO) in 1997. Apart from writing novels, West also wrote screenplays, radio dramas, plays and was also an artist. Translated into twenty-seven languages, his works have sold more that sixty million copies. He also wrote an account on his spiritual journey, A View From the Ridge, published at the end of 1996. Morris West died while working at his desk on 9th October 1999. 030 Morris West died while working at his desk on 9th October 1999.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Shoes of the Fisherman; G.K. Hall large print book series; THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE PRINT PAPERBACK SERIES; G. K. Hall
• Author: Morris L. West
• Edition: reprint, large print
• Publisher: Gale, 1991
• ISBN: 0816151415, 9780816151417
• Length: 434 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Christian / General; Fiction / General; Fiction / Historical; Fiction / Religious