The Edge of Sadness - Loyola Classics Author:Edwin O'Connor In this moving novel, Father Hugh Kennedy, a recovering alcoholic, returns to Boston to repair his damaged priesthood. There he is drawn into the unruly world of the Carmodys, a sprawling, prosperous Irish family teeming with passion and riddled with secrets. The story of this entanglement is a beautifully rendered tale of grace and renewal, of ... more »friendship and longing, of loneliness and spiritual aridity giving way to hope.« less