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The life you save may be your own
an American pilgrimage
By Elie, Paul
- ISBN
- 978-0-37425-680-7
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2003
In the 1950s, Englishman Evelyn Waugh lamented the lack of a distinctively American Catholic literary tradition, even as one was finding its voice right under his nose. Farrar editor Elie (ed., A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints) uses his considerable gifts as a storyteller to weave together the biographies of four figures who became that "School of the Holy Ghost": Thomas Merton, the celebrity monk whose writing popularized American ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
