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Merton and friends : a joint biography of Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, and Edward Rice
- Title
- Merton and friends : a joint biography of Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, and Edward Rice / James Harford.
- Author
- Harford, James J.
- Publication
- New York : Continuum, 2006.
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- Description
- xiv, 336 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-301) and index.
- Contents
- Seeds of unorthodoxy : eccentric paths from Olean, Europe, and Brooklyn to Morningside Heights -- Spiritual hippies : writing, carousing, praying in Olean; taking over Jester; Lax published in the New Yorker -- The war, the monk, the Manhattanites : Merton to Gethsemani; Lax to the New Yorker; Rice a godfather again -- Literary triumphs : Merton writes Seven storey mountain; Lax, after stints with Time and Hollywood, writes Circus classic; Rice leaves Pathé to start Jubilee -- Jubilee's heyday : Rice the mastermind; Lax the rover; Merton a major contributor; Circus comes out -- Vatican II before and after : Jubilee interprets the council -- Romances, deaths : the nurse; loss of Columbia pals, then Jubilee -- Odysseys : Lax, Rice, and Merton more deeply into eastern religions; Rice travels; Merton outraged at Vietnam War, disillusioned with Vatican II; final meetings at Gethsemani; Merton's death in Bangkok -- Laurels : Merton's corpus grows post-mortem; Lax's poems hailed; Rice writes a controversial Merton biography -- Merton movement : Merton chapters formed worldwide; books by Lax and Rice praised; Rice remarries, then loses Susanna -- Ups, downs, requiems -- Legacy : impact of all three on a troubled American Catholicism.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-6933
- ISBN
- 0826418694 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780826418692 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006016047
- OCLC
- 69020975
- vendorOCM69020975
- Author
- Harford, James J.
- Title
- Merton and friends : a joint biography of Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, and Edward Rice / James Harford.
- Imprint
- New York : Continuum, 2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-301) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-6933