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From: Commonweal
Date: 19990507
Author:Tinder, Glenn

Saint Augustine

Garry Wills

Lipper/Viking, $19.95, 152 pp.

The main source of dissatisfaction for most readers of Garry Wills's new book on Saint Augustine is apt to be that there is not more of it. Rather than a many- colored portrait in oils, Wills offers a small etching-done with great care and skill. Almost everyone, even those already well-versed in Augustine, will learn from examining the etching; to say that they are apt to wish it were larger is a way of praising it. There is, however, a danger attached to a short account of so many-sided a figure as ...

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