Eating Jesus
Andrew O’Hagan
- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Secker, 282 pp, £12.99, June 1993, ISBN 0 436 20135 6
When I made my First Communion, a famously bitter Catholic aunt of mine took me into a side-chapel of our church. She wrapped me up in her arms, right in the middle of all her perfumery, straightened my red sash, and told me I was ‘blessed, blessed, blessed’. Then out of her bag she handed me a wooden crucifix with a luminous lime-green Christ glued onto it. ‘It’s from The Grotto,’ she whispered. ‘Keep it beside you.’
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Vol. 15 No. 13 · 8 July 1993 » Andrew O’Hagan » Eating Jesus
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