Friday, December 19, 2008

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

This one was an audiobook (unabridged). What a great book--I listened to it twice. A deep, rich presentation of sin, grace, and forgiveness, and the "bigness" of the Church behind it all.

2 comments:

Xen Scott said...

I have read "Decline and Fall" by Waugh. It was great. I love his sense of humor. BR needs to be on my list.

Baumbach said...

Yeah, the humor is more veiled in this one. It is there, though. This was supposedly his "why I am a Catholic / Christian" novel, a means to introduce the Church to a secular readership. He was an adult convert to Catholicism, and the part the Church plays in the novel is great.