Clerical Errors
Alan Isler
  • Published: 15 January 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099285854
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99

Clerical Errors

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'Alan Isler is brilliant... The wit is sumptuous and sophisticated, the timing and pace perfect' - Daily Telegraph

Edmond Music, Catholic priest and director of Beale Hall research institute, has a secret: he doesn't believe in God. And that's not all. For the past forty years he has shared a bed with his housekeeper, Maude Moriarty from Donegal. In fact Edmond Music isn't even Edmond Music. He's Edmond Music, French child of Hungarian parents - and a Jew.

As he sees out his days in his Shropshire mansion, devoting his time to kabbalistic studies, his buried pasts threaten to end the charade. Fred Twombly, professor of English from Joliet, Illinois, and half-century-long enemy, has arrived, determined to destroy him. What may be Shakespeare's lost masterpiece has disappeared from the Hall's famous library. Edmond must be to blame.
  • Published: 15 January 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099285854
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Alan Isler

Alan Isler is the author of several novels including: The Prince of West End Avenue, Kraven Images, The Bacon Fancier, Clerical Errors, and The Living Proof.

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Praise for Clerical Errors

A delightful mix of both wit and profundity. The combination of rich vocabulary, a decent plot, and Isler's unnerving ability to assume the identity of his characters can't help but result in a novel you'll wish was longer!

Time Out

Alan Isler, as usual, manages to combine almost Wodehousian comedy with painful, unsentimental tragedy

Sunday Times

A superb new comic novel... wildly funny... Like the stories of Malamud and Singer one senses that the true hero of Clerical Errors is the story itself

Independent on Sunday

Terrifically funny. Isler has once again come up with a winning voice for his narrator, by turns witty, bawdy and lugubrious

Financial Times

A rich, rambunctious novel

The Times

Through Father Music's rambling all-embracing voice, Isler gives us one of the funniest, most moving novels of faith, love and loss in years

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