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Frederick Buechner s last novel, Godric, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Now he returns with a ribald and richly colored portrait of the sixth-century Irish saint, Brendan, whose lifelong search for the Terrestrial Paradise, Tir-na-n-Og, was the basis for one of the more popular of all medieval legends. Through the eyes of Finn, Brendan s childhood friend and loyal follower, we see Brendan in all his complexity. In a series of unforgettable episodes, both earthly and other-worldly, Buechner chronicles the path of a remarkable man through the Celtic world of fifteen hundred years ago.