{"product_id":"the-dark-angels","title":"The Dark Angels","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eBy François Mauriac\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA sense of solitude, such as he had never known before, weighed him down. He was alone now. What had become of the hot fire within him\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Dark Angels \u003c\/b\u003econtinues the story of Alain Forcas and his sister, Tota—who first appeared in François Mauriac’s 1930 novel \u003ci\u003eWhat Was Lost\u003c\/i\u003e—as their lives unravel within a vicious web of family and extra­marital relationships. Now curé of the village, Alain is presented with the confession of Gabriel Gradère, whose life of dissipation has chained him to his mistress, Aline. Gabriel has returned to his boyhood home to cheat Desbats, his rival for the love of Mathilde. Yet Mathilde loves Gabriel’s son, Andrès, who is infatuated with Tota. Emotional manipulation and the distortion of desire hangs the threat of violence over the village, and Alain is left to confront the full, perilous scope of his priestly duty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eFirst published in English on the eve of Mauriac’s 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature, \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Angels \u003c\/i\u003eis a superbly executed telling of how an obsession with revenge inevitably results in self-destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrançois Mauriac \u003c\/b\u003e(1885–1970) was a French Catholic novelist, poet, critic, and journalist. Critically acclaimed and respected, Mauriac received the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française for his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Desert of Love\u003c\/i\u003e; was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d’honneur; and named laureate of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1949899726\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68197673566393,"sku":"978-1949899726","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/9177\/3369\/files\/ProductImages_256_428a54b8-6069-4129-bfad-e9536d76d456.jpg?v=1794089139","url":"https:\/\/catholicshop.com\/products\/the-dark-angels","provider":"CatholicShop.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}