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Infinity of Little Hours

Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order

  • Paperback
  • 304 pages
  • Publisher: Perseus Books Group
  • 14 x 21 x 1.8 cm

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This is a unique and compelling look into the hidden world of the Carthusians - the western world's most ascetic monastic order. In 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster in West Sussex, the largest centre of the Carthusians - the most rigorous and ascetic monastic order in the Western world. This is the story of their five-year journey into a society virtually unchanged in its behaviour and lifestyle since its foundations in 1084. "An Infinity of Little Hours" is a uniquely intimate portrait of the customs and practices of a monastic order almost entirely unknown until now. It is also a drama of the men's struggle as they avoid the 1960s - the decade of hedonism, music, fashion and amorality - and enter an entirely different era and a spiritual world of their own making. After five years each must face a choice: to make "solemn profession" and never leave Parkminster; or to turn his back on his life's ambition to find God in solitude. A remarkable investigative work, the book combines first-hand testimony with unique source material, to describe the Carthusian life.And in the final chapter, which recounts a reunion forty years after the events described elsewhere in the book, Nancy Klein Maguire reveals which of the five succeeded in their quest - and which did not.
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  • Author

    Nancy Maguire

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Perseus Books Group

  • Published

    March 2007

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    273g

  • Page Count

    304

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781586484323

  • ISBN-10

    158648432X

  • Eden Code

    1218227

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