All We Know of Heaven: A Novel - Softcover

Rougeau, Remy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618219226 ISBN 13: 9780618219223

Verlag: Mariner Books, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

With "careful prose and a tone of humble striving" (New York Times Book Review), this revelatory first novel by a cloistered monk traces a young man's search for wisdom among the inhabitants of a Cistercian monastery. In 1973, Paul Seneschal, a shy nineteen-year-old from rural Manitoba, takes flight from the world behind the wrought iron gates of St. Norbert Abbey. Here forty monks grow their own food, wake at three in the morning to pray, and converse largely through a spare but expressive vocabulary of hand signals. Renamed Brother Antoine, Paul strives for wisdom and holiness, yet life within the cloister can't block out all of humanity's foibles. One monk lapses into pyromania; another, a French Canadian, attacks any English-speaker who gets too close; another resembles "a bald Martha Ray." We soon see that even in this rarefied realm, human folly nestles cheek by jowl with the divine. A wise yet refreshingly humorous account of a life of faith, ALL WE KNOW OF HEAVEN offers an a fascinating glimpse into a quiet world that very few people know about.

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Remy Rougeau is a cloistered monk living in the Upper Midwest. He holds an MFA from Emerson College and has published parts of this novel in the Atlantic Monthly and elsewhere.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0618219226
• ISBN 13: 9780618219223
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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