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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... looked completely different . The new abbey church was a sprawling concrete edifice with a pointed dome . It had dozens of tall , abstract , stained - glass windows , a rainbow of cough drops melted together . From the outside it ...
... looked like a postcard from somewhere a whole lot better than this . Although it was Monday , we had the day off . The monks had another big Mass with the remaining bishops , abbots , and assorted Catholic wheels . The party atmosphere ...
... looked at his watch and announced it was ten minutes to rosary . We formed the gauntlet . Each Christian was given the final chance to say " Hail Caesar . " One of the freshmen caved in and was set free to live in shame . The others ...
... looked as much like a mummy or a cocoon as a replica of our Lord in agony . In the back corner of the chapel a more normal statue of the Blessed Virgin stepping on a serpent kept watch over us from behind . A solitary kneeler was parked ...
... looked that way from a distance . We were making out , I admit , but Brother Thomas wasn't interested in hearing my defence . " Holy Mary , Mother of God , pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death . Amen . " The rosary was ...
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