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TWO WRITERS ON A SPIRITUAL PATH.(IDEAS)

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From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
Date: 19970112
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Byline: KENNETH H. CARTER, Jr.

THE CLOISTER WALK

By Kathleen Norris.

Putnam's. 384 pages. $23.95.

A SEARCH FOR SOLITUDE:

The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume Three.

Edited by Lawrence Cunningham.

Harper. 406 pages. $27.50.

NONFICTION REVIEW

Kathleen Norris, a sometimes Presbyterian lay preacher, is the author of Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, which appeared in 1993 and met with, to everyone's surprise, significant commercial and critical response.

How is one to explain the popular appeal of an extended meditation on the spiritual ...

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