Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Ballantine Books (1993), Edition: Reprint, 256 pages
Description
"A religious cliff-hanger--intimate, compelling, hard to put down." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Eager to shake off the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing, Patricia Hample seeks the "old world" of Catholicism. On her pilgrimage she meets others seekers--crotchety English agnostics, American Franciscan friars and nuns, and the seekers that fill every charter flight. Inevitably, too, she finds the "old world" right at home, in the very past she had tried to escape. But what she is looking for confronts her, finally, on a rereat at a monastery near the Lost Coast of northern California in the still, virgin moments of silent prayer....
Subjects
LCC
BT1102.H32
Awards
Minnesota Book Awards (Finalist — 1993)
Physical description
256 p.; 5.5 inches
ISBN
0345384245 / 9780345384249