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  • Our Lady of Greenwich Village: A Novel

  • By: Dermot McEvoy
  • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
  • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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Our Lady of Greenwich Village: A Novel

By: Dermot McEvoy
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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Dermot McEvoy sweeps his listeners into the midst of one of the most heated political races in New York City history, where an unlikely player decides to make her presence known. First it hits the papers that the Virgin Mary has appeared to Jackie Swift, an affable G.O.P. congressman with a couple of nasty habits. She then appears in a dream to Wolfe Tone O'Rourke, a liberal political consultant who is still haunted by the ghost of Bobby Kennedy, whose death he feels responsible for.

Swift uses the Virgin, soon styled "Our Lady of Greenwich Village", to put a strong anti-abortion spin on his current run for office, which immediately polarizes Greenwich Village. O'Rourke, beset by his many demons, sees something familiar in the Virgin's dancing eyes and the line of her smile and decides to run against Swift with the campaign slogan "NO MORE BULLSHIT". With help from unlikely characters like Cyclops Reilly, a one-eyed newspaper columnist for the Daily News, and Simone "Sam" McGuire, O'Rourke's pretty, no-nonsense assistant, Tone is sent on a transcontinental journey that forces him to confront his own ghosts and dig deep into his family history, all to answer one burning question: What does Our Lady of Greenwich Village really want him to do?

©2008 Dermot McEvoy (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
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Editorial reviews

Filled with beautiful prose and biting social commentary, Our Lady of Greenwich Village tells the story of a heated New York political race in which it seems the Virgin Mary has taken an interest. This is a decidedly American novel packed with political intrigue and sharp cultural satire. Performed adeptly by Stefan Rudnicki, Our Lady of Greenwich Village is both fast paced and insightful. Rudnicki particularly excels at bringing out the beautiful bits of Irish flavor that color McEvoy's prose.

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What a great story teller

Vivid and beautiful, funny, as a now third generation fenian I love to see our culture raised up blemishes abs all. Well Witten and tell told!

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Entertaining writing

An avalanche of characters and their backstories, all very clever…but the concept of a plot seems to have escaped Dermot. Stephan Rudnicki is predictably excellent, doing his best to turn this dreck into something actually listening to.
I spent two hours driving, listening, then I realized…it was writing for the author’s entertainment, not for the book, not for the story. I couldn’t listen to any more.

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Interesting in its politics

The performance was excellent. The writing was excellent and I liked the political story of late 60s early 70s Catholic New York politics. I thought several of the protagonists were very interesting characters to bring to light. I found its weakest point was the sudden eruption of a romantic story that was Not really credible and frankly got gratuitously graphic on the number of occasions. The protagonist O’Rourke would’ve been more credible if he had not after 50 years of womanizing suddenly fallen irretrievably head over heels for a young woman he meets and proceeds to complicate the story with a pregnancy. I’d rather like to the “magical realism “part having to do with the Virgin Mary but I just thought that potentially rich characters were given short shrift in the interest of furring I’m not quite credible romantic connection.

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