Divine Comedy — Gregory Blake Smith

From Simon & Schuster, The Divine Comedy of John Venner is Gregory Blake Smith's unforgettable novel.John Venner, a thirty-five-year-old doctor of divinity at a small New England college near one of America's last Shaker outposts, becomes obsessed with a shapely Shaker virgin and battles the conflicting emotions brought on by the yearnings of the flesh and the spirit.