All We Know of Heaven - Rilegato

Rougeau, Remy

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ISBN 10: 0618094997 ISBN 13: 9780618094998

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

Riassunto

As nineteen-year-old Paul Seneschal enters a Cistercian monastery of the Strict Observance and adjusts to the austere, cloistered life, he is surprised to discover the many ways in which the divine can be revealed.

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Recensione:

"To read ALL WE KNOW OF HEAVEN is to enter a quiet space--a realm at once exotic and familiar, separate from the whirling world and yet so achingly human in its depiction of the characters' desire for spiritual meaning, also deeply of it. Remy Rougeau's first novel is luminous. The prose is simple and refined; the images ring clear; every word matters."

--Marcie Hershman,

author of SPEAK TO ME: Grief,Love and What Endures [forthcoming] and TALES OF THE MASTER RACE

"It is a rare novel that promises to show us a world about which most of us know nothing; but Remy Rougeau does far more here than simply reveal the daily and nightly life of a cloistered monk. With generous and resonant prose, Rougeau takes us so deeply into the unadorned sensual world of this rural monastery that we--like our passionate protagonist, Brother Antoine--find ourselves in the quiet, constant presence of the ethereal. This is a deeply wise and uplifting book."

Andre Dubus III, author of HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG

"This appealing novel by a born storyteller allows us to enter the odd but very human hamlet of a monastery. Readers who would never consider a monastic life will appreciate the book's humane wisdom, recognizing that a true vocation is hard to discern, and that we are often saved by those who would seem least able to help us. I recommend the book also because it contains the best cemetery story in recent fiction."

Kathleen Norris, author of THE CLOISTER WALK

"A view of the monastic life that's steady, whole, intelligent, and moving."

Kirkus Reviews

"This droll, almost Barbara Pymish debut novel about monastery life--rife with petty jealousies, dawn chores, and repressed lust--is often lovely." The New Yorker

"His scrupulous detail about daily life in the monastery is fascinating to read....'All We Know of Heaven' offers lyrical, richly descriptive prose, thoughtful ruminatons on various ethical issues and an educational glimpse into monastic life." Newsday

"Somehow the whole, like Rougeau's quietly beautiful novel, becomes infinitely greater than its parts." The Washington Post

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0618094997
• ISBN 13: 9780618094998
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 226