This novel's narrator becomes the brother-in-law of the future Pope Gregory XVII when his sister Hortense marries the composer Domenico, and this novel begins with the narrator being visited by the Archbishop of Malta and asked to help with the pope's canonization.
One part of this novel consists of a chapter from its narrator's novel, A Way Back to Eden, which itself contains a rewriting of Genesis as the story of Adam's friendship with a man named Yedid, who is transformed into Eve when the pair are cast out of the Garden. The narrator of this novel testifies in the obscenity trial of Valentine Wriggley's poetry collection The Love Songs of J. Christ, and earlier in life, the narrator was forced to leave London after being caught in a homosexual affair with Rodney Selkirk. Notable real-life figures present in this novel include Ford Maddox Ford, who has bad breath, and James Joyce. This novel's narrator becomes the brother-in-law of the future Pope Gregory XVII when his sister Hortense marries the composer Domenico, and this novel begins with the narrator being visited by the Archbishop of Malta and asked to help with the pope's canonization. For 10 points, identify this novel about the intertwined lives of the clergyman Carlo Campanati and the homosexual novelist Kenneth Toomey, which won the 1980 Booker Prize for Anthony Burgess.
One part of this novel consists of a chapter from its narrator's novel, A Way Back to Eden, which itself contains a rewriting of Genesis as the story of Adam's friendship with a man named Yedid, who is transformed into Eve when the pair are cast out of the Garden.
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