About this title: By a series of flukes, plain Bill Kelly of Cape Cod is elected Pope, and--during his brief reign--dispenses homespun wisdom and does good deeds all over the world, including bringing peace to Ireland and helping to alleviate poverty in Africa.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312268015ISBN:0312268017
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780312282981ISBN:0312282982
Description: Good. Standard used condition. May have light reading or storage wear. All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780312282981ISBN:0312282982
Description: Very Good. No DJ Issued. 0312282982 Very good. No dust jacket as issued. spine/smooth, text/clean, cover has slight shelf wear. Allow 30 days for Standard/Mediamail delivery. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 394 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, NY
Date Published: Dec-01
ISBN-13:9780312282981ISBN:0312282982
Description: Clean, mark-free text. 394 pages. read more
Description: Fine. 0312268017 Excellent Condition FIRST EDITION Hard Cover book with paper dust jacket cover! Clean pages, no writing in book, dust jacket great-no tears, dust jacket price states $24.95, mild shelf rub, This book is Near NEW! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St Martins Griffin, New York
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312282981ISBN:0312282982
Description: Has a remainder mark on the bottom, and a couple dings on the front cover, in excellent condition. Glued binding, 394 pages, paperback. Fiction read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312268015ISBN:0312268017
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Light edgewear o/w nice copy. read more
"This book ended up with me, after being given to my mother by a neighbor, who knew that my mother was puzzling out her Catholic family, and that my mother was a reader. She was/is, but not a reader of this book. It was damned with faint praise by the original giver (something like it wasn't that great a book, though the premise was interesting). It took me a while to find a time to sit down with a "not so great" book but I finally did, the week after the death of Pope John Paul II. I was hoping to get some idea, in lay person's terms, about what goes on in the choosing of a Pope. And I did get some things answered. But much of what I already knew came from the Andrew Greeley book White Smoke which has to do with the election of a Pope, in fractious times, too.
As to the book itself-- Eh. Wasn't thrilled. The premise seemed forced to me and the characters never took off. A bit too much like they were hoping for a TV movie with Mel Gibson playing Bill Kelly, aka Pope Peter. The writing was stiff- the plot stiffer. I am surprised because one of the authors wrote The French Connection, though maybe that was a crummy book made into a good movie- don't know because I never read it! The other author is an ex-mayor of Boston and ex Ambassador to the Vatican, so the inside scoop must have been the real thing..."
"This book is a bit unusual in that the man who becomes elected Pope is... American. How he goes from humble fisherman to the Vatican is well-worth the read; the book is full of surprises and cool ideas. It also takes a look at the Pope-dom and Christianity/Catholocism from a fresh, 21st-century viewpoint. Lively and thought-provoking, this has been one of my favorite books to read over the past few years."
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