Black Robe

Proof Copy. 8vo. 241pp. Brick-red wraps, printed in black.

Author, title, and 'Proof Copy', inked to spine. Light age-tanning to text block edges, one light crease to spine, else Fine.

Listed in Carmen Callil's and Colm Tóibín's The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950.

A young Jesuit missionary travels to the Americas, to bring the word of God to the heathen. Title refers to the nickname given by First Nations peoples to Jesuits, on account of their black cassocks. Basis for the 1991 film of the same name by Bruce Beresford, starring Daniel Day Lewis, for which Moore wrote the screenplay. "A remarkable tour de force... Compulsive reading." –Sunday Telegraph

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