
The Grisly Wife
by Rodney Hall
Book Details
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 1993
Language: en
Pages: 261
ISBN: 9780374167042
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"In his stunning new novel, Rodney Hall tells a gripping story of fanaticism, religious cults, and murder." "Catherine Byrne is a nineteenth-century English missionary who travels to remotest Australia with her prophetic husband and his band of women disciples. Named Muley Moloch after an Irishman whose soul he is determined to save, he is a preacher of miraculous powers who leads his followers through severe hardship - shipwreck, disease, and death - in their millenarian quest.
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