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Word Awake is a masterful study of Michael O’Brien’s apocalyptic novels

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Nathaniel Delaney, the protagonist of Michael D. O’Brien’s Plague Journal—the third novel in a sequence of seven entitled Children of the Last Days—is the editor of a small-town newspaper in British Columbia when the novel […]

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Biography of Michael O’Brien details a creative life full of joys and sorrows

June 21, 2017 Richard Bastien 11

Over the past century, most Western countries have produced great Catholic fiction writers. The UK may rightly pride itself on Evelyn Waugh, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, the U.S. on Walker Percy and Flannery O’Connor, […]

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