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Ode to mentor lacks Norris' usual edge.(ENTERTAINMENT)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20010506
Author:Miller, Pamela

Byline: Pamela Miller; Staff Writer

Admirers of Kathleen Norris' lyrical writing on faith and landscape might be startled, and a bit disappointed, by "The Virgin of Bennington," Norris' account of her early adulthood at Vermont's Bennington College in the 1960s and in Manhattan in the '70s.

At 18, the cerebral, naive young woman was tossed into the maw of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. She reacted with shock and depression but gradually slipped into the turbulent cultural stream, gathering wisdom and damage like barnacles. After college, she took a job with the Academy of ...

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