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On Thomas Merton by Mary Gordon is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is On Thomas Merton about?
From the best-selling novelist and memoirist: a deeply personal view of her discovery of the celebrated modern monk and thinker through his writings. “If Thomas Merton had been a writer and not a monk, we would never have heard of him. If Thomas Merton had been a monk and not a writer, we would never have heard of him.” So begins acclaimed author Mary Gordon in this probing, candid exploration of the man who became the face and voice of mid-twentieth-century American Catholicism. Approaching Mer
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mary Gordon
- Publisher
- Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781611807677
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Religion, Christian, Memoir
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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