absolution

Like many of Schrader’s antiheroes, from Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle to the eco-conscious Pastor Ernst Toller of First Reformed, William is a haunted diarist in search of absolution.

The full 108 takes most pilgrims about four full days, a relatively small fee for absolute absolution.

Then he threw in one that seemed to me an odd item for which to seek absolution: technological innovation.

Revising the second novel, Fallen Land, after the reviews were out for Absolution made it a much less overwhelming process.

What drew you to South Africa as the setting for Absolution?

My agent suggested I try to have a completed draft of a second novel before Absolution was published.

When I was writing Absolution, I knew almost no other writers of fiction, and felt a distinct lack of community.

“Well, mistakes is humant,” sighed Sol, taking advantage of that universal absolution.

In the course of time, absolution for the sacrilege was obtained from the Pope; but my father could never obtain it from himself.

The friars had power of absolution, independently of the bishop; and it was a bitter grievance.

During the night he was visited by the Prior of the Dominicans, from whom, having made confession, he received absolution.

But the terms of this secret and the conditions of my absolution are peculiar.