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[COMPLETE] Incorrect Description: The Sparrow
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Link to book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... - There's no ISBN because it's an ACE, and also the recent rampage that the Goodreads bot went on assigned it an incorrect ASIN from a secondhand Amazon seller. And because of how Goodreads works, it can apparently never be removed. Yippee.
The correct description is as follows, transcribed directly from the back of the book:
A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end. This twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new afterword by Mary Doria Russell about the writing of the novel and its relevance in the age of Pope Francis.