Vipers' Tangle

By François Mauriac

From its bitter beginning as a hate-filled letter to an estranged wife to its harrowing, untimely conclusion, Vipers’ Tangle is an absorbing tale of pride and passion. With the remarkable subtlety combined with sudden recklessness which marks all his fiction, Mauriac reveals the mundane events, details, and personalities of the story as a series of spiritual and psychological battles against God, family, and self—as Monsieur Louis is caught betwixt the lure of sin and the sublime workings of grace.

It was not money that this miser really treasured, nor, in his blind fury, was it vengeance that he sought. What it was that he truly loved you may discover who have the strength of mind, and the courage, to follow his story to the end….

With its superb narrative arc and unflinching examination of the human heart, Vipers’ Tangle stands as one of the greatest novels—Catholic or otherwise—of all time.

Mauriac remains unequalled in conciseness and expressive force of language. (Anders Österling)

François Mauriac (1885–1970) was a French, Roman Catholic novelist, poet, critic, and journalist. Critically acclaimed and respected, Mauriac received the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française for his novel The Desert of Love; was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d’honneur; and named laureate of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Paperback & E-book: 220pp.

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ISBN: 978-1952826511