Black Robe
by Brian Moore
Buy on AmazonMoore was a real magician, capable of writing exquisite character-oriented books. This 1985 novel is as powerful an evocation of crazed fortitude and American frontier savagery as I’ve ever come across, James Fenimore Cooper notwithstanding. The title refers to the term the Iroquois applied to the French priests come among them to bring the word of an alien god. Yes, and God help the priests.
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"Moore was a real magician, capable of writing exquisite character-oriented books. This 1985 novel is as powerful an evocation of crazed fortitude and American frontier savagery as I’ve ever come across, James Fenimore Cooper notwithstanding. The title refers to the term the Iroquois applied to the French priests come among them to bring the word of an alien god. Yes, and God help the priests."
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