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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... such crater , last year's leaves rotting in a pool at my feet . It smelled like urine . I could hear hoots and hollers spread thin in the distance . Crouching down , I pulled out a Marlboro , tapped it on the crush - proof box. 11 ...
... pulled my head close and whispered in my ear that he'd leave , making enough commotion for both of us . I should stay behind for the ambush . As soon as he heard me yell , he'd come flying back . I gave him a drag , pinched off the half ...
... pulled him up and tried to force a smile , but it was much too late . " It's just a game , " I said . " I didn't- " " Line ' em up . " Connor took control , and Michael Ashbury fell in with the other Christians . One of the Romans ...
... pulling me back from the murky water an entirely new man . " What are you doing , pervert ? " Eric demanded , interrupting my recollection . He was standing behind me in his pajamas , arms folded across his chest . Jon stood behind him ...
... pulled a brush through its hair , and herded downstairs , past the class- rooms , the dining halls , and the guesthouse , then through a dark , submarinelike passageway into the dimly lit cavern of the new abbey church . There it knelt ...
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