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A Vow of Conversation
Journals, 1964-1965
Author: Thomas Merton; Edited by Naomi Burton Stone
A Vow of Conversation
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About This Book
Book Details
The journal kept by Merton during 1964 and 1965, containing his daily meditations during the crucial and difficult period in which the permission he had awaited so long -- to live alone in his hermitage -- was finally given. These pages reveal his reflections as a hermit on the joys and dangers of a life of solitude in the woods.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
9780374526481
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“A very personal piece of writing blending 'heavenliness and anguish,' wherein unfolds its special appeal.” —Library Journal