The Dancing Angel, by Casserly, Jack
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The Dancing Angel, by Casserly, Jack. Donald I Fine Inc. - G.P. Putnam's Sons: New York, 1995. Edition: First edition with full number line. ISBN: 155611429X. Hardcover, 8vo, 272 pages. Quarter bound in white over blue boards; metallic blue lettering on spine.

Condition: Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket. Spine ends very lightly bumped; jacket is lightly rubbed with a small amounr of wear at margins.

Contents: Publisher's Note:

As the fictitious but very real Father Brogan says in The Dancing Angel, "I remember when Catholics described the differences in the Church as an angel dancing on the head of a pin; now the angel is dancing on the tip of a flaming candle."

Which explains the title and sets the tone and substance of this major novel of a Catholic family, the Dolans of Chicago, their tempestuous lives among themselves and with the church and its Archbishop that they at once love and come in dramatic conflict with.

It is a churning broth that plays itself out in scene after scene of dramatic intensity, involving along the way the very current controversies that are upsetting many in the established Catholic church hierarchy today. This is a big, full-blown novel that is uniquely Chicago and especially Catholic Chicago, but ranges in its impact and storytelling power far beyond.