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The anchoress
- Title
- The anchoress / Robyn Cadwallader.
- Author
- Cadwallader, Robyn.
- Publication
- New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 15-2513 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 310 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "A startling and strange debut novel about a young girl's desperate choice to isolate herself from the world England, 1255: Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman much like Saint Hildegard of Bingen, shut away in a small cell, measuring seven by nine paces, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth and the pressure to marry, she decides to renounce the world, with all its dangers, desires, and temptations, and to commit herself to a life of prayer. But it soon becomes clear that even the thick, unforgiving walls of her cell cannot keep the outside world away, and Sarah's body and soul are still in great danger. Robyn Cadwallader's powerful debut novel tells an absorbing, entirely human, and compulsively readable story of faith, desire, shame, fear, and the very human need for connection and touch. Compelling, evocative, and haunting, The Anchoress is both quietly heartbreaking and thrillingly unpredictable"--
- "A debut novel, set in 1255, about a young woman who chooses to become an anchoress, which means shutting herself away in a small cell by the side of the village church for the rest of her life and devoting herself to prayer"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-2513
- ISBN
- 9780374104252
- 0374104255
- LCCN
- 2014040364
- OCLC
- 2014040364
- Author
- Cadwallader, Robyn.
- Title
- The anchoress / Robyn Cadwallader.
- Publisher
- New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
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- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-2513