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Rougeau, Remy. All we know of heaven, a novel.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)

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From: Kliatt
Date: 20020901
Author:Rosser, Claire

Houghton Mifflin, Mariner. 226p c2001. 0-618-21911-6. $13.00. SA

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, praised by such authors as Kathleen Norris and Andre Dubus III, this novel by a Benedictine monk is intriguing ai first glance. We selected it for KLIATT review because it involves a young man who as a teenager in 1973 decides to enter a monastery in Manitoba. Paul is ill at ease in the world and searching for a way to give his life meaning. He enters the monastery with little faith and little understanding; over the course of the novel (about six or seven years) he ...

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