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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... sure of what he heard . Crock , crock echoed again , announcing the fact that an amphibian had taken up residence in God's newest house . The place erupted in applause . " It sounds as if all the earth is celebrating today , " the ...
... sure how they played it at other schools , but at the Seminary of Saint John the Divine , contestants concentrated on the apprehension , torture , and simulated martyrdom of Christians . Most boys wanted to be Roman . Old foxholes were ...
... sure . I grabbed his collar again , blew a puff of smoke into his face , then shoved him toward the Coliseum . Jon was already leading his Christian down the Appian Way , and I was falling behind . Mosquitoes filled the air . I almost ...
... sure when you were my age ? " " Fifty - two years ago - 1930 - I was your age . I was living at St. Cuthbert's Abbey in New Brunswick , and there was nothing I wanted more in the world than to become a priest . ” He rested his hands on ...
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