Crossroads Essays on the Catholic Novelists

The essays that make up this book...form a kaleidoscopic portrait of the major Catholic novelists of the last fifty years. The book constitutes an elegy for an apparently dying form in a time of radical change for the Church and for those who saw the drama of Catholic salvation as material for modern fiction where the principal and decisive issue is the salvation or damnation of the hero or heroine.
(The) novelists who are considered here: Bernanos, Böll, Mauriac and Greene, among others, ...