The Jealous God
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The Jealous God is a novel by John Braine which was first published in 1964. Set in the early 1960s among the Irish Catholic community in a small Yorkshire town, the book is about a 30-year-old man and his attempts at liberating himself from his domineering mother.[1] The title refers to the latter's wish that her "favourite" son, although already rather old, become a clergyman. It was adapted into a film in 2005.[2]
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