Hail Mary CornerDundurn, 16 paź 2001 - 209 Taut, compelling, and remarkably assured, Hail Mary Corner thrusts readers into unfamiliar territory past an emotional frontier we all must cross: the uncertain ground between adolescence and adulthood. High on a cliff above a pulp-mill town on Vancouver Island, sixteen-year-old Bill MacAvoy and his friends lead cloistered lives while other boys their age run free. it may be the fall of 1982, but inside the walls of their Benedictine seminary they inhabit a medieval world steeped in ritual and discipline--a place where blackrobed monks move like shadows between doubt and faith. Isolated from the outside, Bill and his friends develop a unique and often hilarious culture. Schooled in the virtues of sacrifice and service, they instead learn to challenge, resist, and wield power over one another's lives. On the road to certain expulsion, Bill discovers two secrets: one concerns Brother Thomas, the monk who watches his every move; the other involves his best friend, Jon. In Bill's hands these secrets prove dangerous weapons. Handled carelessly, they trigger an event that threatens to haunt him for the rest of his life. |
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... cross : the uncertain ground between adolescence and adulthood . High on a cliff above a pulp - mill town on Vancouver Island , sixteen - year- old Bill MacAvoy and his friends lead cloistered lives while other boys their age run free ...
... cross on top .... With wizened hands the monks reached out and took the box from the boys , nodded a blessing to them , then placed it care- fully under the altar . The box contained the relics of Saint Scholastica , patroness of rain ...
... cross on top . Stiff and serious , they stopped at the foot of the altar where the abbot and four monks in gold - brocade vestments waited with the cardinal , who tipped his crosier - the hooked staff of the Shepherd of Men - in solemn ...
... cross in perfect unison . As I watched Father Albert sweat and sway toward a musical crescendo , the Eucharist attached itself firmly to the roof of my mouth . I held it there with my tongue until it dis- solved like an M & M and became ...
... Cross below a row of small square windows . The windows were up high and made of coloured , textured glass like the kind found in washrooms and other places where people shouldn't look in . There , on its knees under the fluorescent ...
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