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...BROTHER'S WIFE by Andrew M. Greeley; Warner; 350 pages...
...name, Catholicism's most juvenile writer (with never an unpublished thought) is back with his second potboiler. Everyone knows that a second novel is by definition worse than a first novel. Since The Cardinal Sins was a cheap, tawdry, trashy, sleazy book, you can imagine how bad Andrew Greeley's new novel, Thy Brother's Wife, is. A putrid, puerile, prurient, pulpy potboiler...
That diatribe is not from one of Andrew Greeley's critics. It is from Greeley himself, mimicking and mocking his detractors. He has plenty to choose from. Some of the Greeley haters may be simply envious: the author owns a sunny, three-bedroom house in Tucson, where he spends a semester each year teaching sociology at the University of Arizona. He keeps a two-bedroom condominium on the 47th floor of the chic John Hancock Center in Chicago, where he conducts widely respected studies at the National Opinion Research Center. And he has a beach cottage on Lake Michigan...
...trouble with all this worldly success is that its recipient, Father Andrew M. (for Moran) Greeley, 54, is a Roman Catholic priest. It is not so much the money that disturbs his critics: diocesan priests do not take a vow of poverty. The sticking point is the novels themselves, in which Greeley seems bent upon airing the dirtier linen of the church he professes to love and serve. Not only do Greeley's Cardinals sin, but lower prelates, priests and parishioners are awash in anger and avarice, deceit and envy, pride and lust-especially lust. Greeley pleads that...
Vicki Hamer University of Northern Colorado Greeley, Colo...