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Magic Cup - Andrew M. Greeley

Magic Cup

By: Andrew M. Greeley

Paperback | 27 September 1984

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Whatever Greeley's journalistic qualifications (The Making of the Popes 1978, p. 488), he ends up here as just another melancholy reminder that many a good mind is led astray when tempted to write about Ireland. In this amalgamation of Irish and Arthurian legend, the spell of the fair but wicked Finnabair (Guinevere) over doddering King Dermot threatens the frail hold of Christianity on sixty-century Ireland. Cormac MacDermot, trying to return to his father's court, is sent forth by the witch, accompanied only by the slave-girl Brigid and the faithful wolfhound Podraig, in quest of the "magic cup" and the "magic princess" Delvcaem. After a soggy sequence of adventures including a sojourn in the Caribbean through the offices of St. Brendan the Voyager, Cormac is ready to learn the truth of the magic princess' identity and claim his throne. This nonsense might have been salvageable in the hands of a halfway competent narrator. Greeley, with his queasy prose and maladroit love scenes, fumbles it most lamentably. (Kirkus Reviews)