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Original Title:	The All of It
ISBN:	087923623X (ISBN13: 9780879236236)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Father Declan de Loughry, Enda Dennehy, Kevin Dennehy
Setting:	Roonatellin, County Mayo(Ireland)
Literary Awards:	Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1987)

The All of It

Jeannette Haien

Hardcover | Pages: 145 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 2811 Users | 549 Reviews

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Title	:	The All of It
Author	:	Jeannette Haien
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 145 pages
Published	:	July 1st 1986 by David R Godine Pub
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Ireland. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels. Literary Fiction. European Literature. Irish Literature

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A sleeper hit when first published in 1986, Jeannette Haien's exquisite, beloved first novel is a deceptively simple story that has the power and resonance of myth. The story begins on a rainy morning as Father Declan de Loughry stands fishing in an Irish salmon stream, pondering the recent deathbed confession of one of his parishioners. Kevin Dennehy and his wife, Enda, have been sweetly living a lie for some 50 years, a lie the full extent of which Father Declan learns only when Enda finally confides "the all of it." Her tale of suffering mesmerizes the priest, who recognizes that it is also a tale of sin and scandal, a transgression he cannot ignore. The resolution of his dilemma is a triumph of strength and empathy that, as Benedict Kiely has said, makes The All of It "a book to remember".

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This is one of those unassuming little gems that you run across once in a while. It is set in Ireland, more or less in the current time. Its structure is interesting. It's a story within a story within a story. The first level is a fishing trip that one of the protagonists, Father Declan de Loughry, has taken the day after one of his parishioners, Kevin Dennehy, has died. As he fishes he ruminates about the previous day when he and the dead man's wife, Enda, kept watch by the body. That's the

A gem about thwarted, illicit attraction and secrets.

This book is definitely not a mainstream novel, but falls clearly into the "literary" novel pile. The book called to me when I was doing other things, and I found myself wondering about Enda and the priest. I have to admit to sitting upright when I clicked the "next" page on my kindle only to find out that the book was at the end. We are so used to having things spelled out for us that it is sometimes hard to finish a book with so many things left to my own imagination. If you are looking for a



Set in Ireland, this short book is the story of a priest, Father Declan, who hears the life story of one of his flock, Enda. Enda's life companion Kevin has just died, and they shared a secret. Their past makes for a harrowing little story in itself, but the real tale here is how it affects Father Declan, who must choose to react as a duty-bound Catholic priest or as a human being, Enda's friend. Throughout, the author weaves beautiful descriptions of the cathartic salmon-fishing trip Father

3.5. I quite enjoyed this short novel. Thanks for the lend, Kerry!

The author was in her middle sixties when it was published to good reviews but few sales by David Godine. Harper's Perennial Library republished it in 1988; again it went out of print. Perhaps it's to the credit our country's advance in literacy that it was picked up again for this Harper Perennial paperback, two years ago, with a warm foreword by Ann Patchett, who likens its urgent, disciplined, fascinating package, running fewer than 150 pages, to that of The Great Gatsby; Miss Lonelyhearts;