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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... wasn't cut out for the job . Saint John the Divine was run by monks ; Benedictines to be exact . Their kind had been living the Rule of Saint Benedict since anno domini 529. Their wardrobe consisted of identical black - hooded habits ...
... Wasn't he shielded from all things unpleasant in the radiant face of God ? It seemed a terrible fate to have to watch people for eternity picking their noses , stealing , and doing and thinking all the other things they did and thought ...
... wasn't 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 ...
... wasn't really effeminate , but he had the long , slender hands of a woman and was always meticulously groomed . Eric's hair was his favourite feature . It never yielded to gravity or wind . Dishwater- brown , it was always parted in the ...
... wasn't babying him . An almost life - size crucifix loomed over the altar in the student chapel . It was abstract , in the style of the 1960s . Carved from white marble , it looked as much like a mummy or a cocoon as a replica of our ...
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