Recital of the Dark Verses

by Luis Felipe Fabre

Book Overview

A road novel, a coming-of-age tale, and a raunchy slapstick comedy that tells-in careening, charismatic prose--the (true) story of the theft of the body of Saint John of the Cross.

In August 1592, a bailiff and his two assistants arrive at the monastery of beda, with the secret task of transferring the remains of Saint John of the Cross, the great Carmelite poet and mystic, to his final abode. When they exhume him, they find the saint's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164605279X
• ISBN13: 9781646052790
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.9"