It is a book you can make into a best seller.In his second film Gregory Peck got the first of his Best Actor nominations for playing the pious and devote Father Francis Chisholm in The Keys of the Kingdom. Use the sales aids they have made available, - imprinted postcards, posters, a series of advertisements. The publishers are backing it with the largest initial appropriation they have ever given one book. It is a great book, a book that has no limitations of creed or faith.
And perhaps even some poor solitary pilgrims who stumble home alone."" Yes, it is a good story - but it is more. Catholics may feel that reflection is cast on the worldliness of the church hierarchy but none can question the reverent spirit in which the old priest says: ""The Church is our great mother, leading us forward. And the lesson is a lesson for troubled times, when religion is sorely needed and faith a vital force. And there is no lag in the telling past and present are knit firmly into one unified picture. Cronin has created immortal characters before, but this time he has surpassed himself. His converts numbered few in the annals of the Church but every one came willingly. His story is simply told as he lived his life simply, whether faced with famine, disease, flood, war, bandits or hardest of all, indifference.
Actually, his career won - from even his enemies, his detractors, grudging humility. Outwardly, he seemed a failure, whether in brief tenure in Scotland or during years in the Chinese mission field. His was never a routine acceptance of the trappings of his faith but the inner flame burned steadily. Francis Chisholm was urged towards the church by a deep inarticulate conviction of vocation - and by a tragedy in his youth. Humility comes next"" in essential goodness being interesting and challenging. In the basic goodness of man in ""tolerance as the highest virtue.
But that here - in Father Francis, the Scots priest who is the central figure, was a character who justified one's faith in right winning its own reward. If I were a bookseller, I should tell my customers that this was no romance, no glamorous creative achievement, no fast-paced adventure tale to take one's mind off the war. Rarely have I been so stirred by a book as by this new novel from the author of The Citadel.
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