# The Sign of the Cross

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- Book: [The Sign of the Cross](https://www.bookquiver.com/colm-toibin/the-sign-of-the-cross) ([The Sign of the Cross.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/colm-toibin/the-sign-of-the-cross.md))
- Authors: [Colm Toibin](https://www.bookquiver.com/colm-toibin)
- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-10-3505-501-2
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2025-03-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Colm Tóibín writes beautifully in a spare style that allows for plain description, high humour and effects that are carefully toned. He is at once an honest, uncertain pilgrim with a press card and a sense of devilment, and a son on an Oedipal trail.