The Eclectic Reader: Connolly's Life

The novel is written in the first person and is narrated by Clark, who is currently living in Rome while he writes adventure stories for boys and cavorts with Maria, his young college age girlfriend. Clark has just gotten word that Connolly ... Unable to a hotel room, Clark is forced to stay with ex-wife. Clark then flies to Wisconsin where he attends Connolly's funeral on the grounds of the former Catholic seminary which has now been sold to Fundamentalist Protestants. ...