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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... 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 consent . With wizened hands the monks ...
... stopped mumbling , we all heard a sound very much of this world . Every head turned to the back of the church where a huge bap- tismal font bubbled holy water over granite rocks and into a little pool . The cardinal paused a moment more ...
... stopped to take it all in . I nearly tripped looking up at the distant honeycombed ceiling , then followed Jon into our pew where we knelt and made the sign of the cross in perfect unison . As I watched Father Albert sweat and sway ...
... stopped what they were doing . From visiting sisters to the girls at the corner store , the few women who entered our lives were united in their opinion : hearts would be broken . Even my own mother said as much . Jon and I really didn ...
... stopped and watched us floating in the Bog , staring back at him . Looking left and right down the empty drive , he started marching across the field . The first thing to come off was his scapular - over his head and onto the grass ...
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