The Edge of Sadness Spiritual and Humani generis (on human

and Humani generis (on human origin and evolution)

Dominic as his subject

His first and most famous novel

only to forgo money and power for the love of Lady Poverty

The Edge of Sadness Spiritual and Humani generis (on humanBy Edwin O'Connor Father Hugh Kennedy has come home. Newly sober, he is charged by his bishop with a derelict, dusty, and dying parish, in a decrepit part of the city. Quite content with his lot, Father Hugh is suddenly pulled back into a past world: the exuberant, turbulent, Irish American world in which he was born and raised. With one telephone call, old Charlie Carmody brings Father Hugh out of his hum drum, methodical priestly life, and gives him