Thomas Merton: The Exquisite Risk of Love: The Chronicle of a Monastic Romance by Robert Waldron

Thomas Merton: The Exquisite Risk of Love: The Chronicle of a Monastic Romance

Robert Waldron

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nonfiction classics literary poetry religion challenging reflective medium-paced
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While recuperating from an operation on his spine in a hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, Thomas Merton befriended a female nurse charged with his care. They fell in love. On returning to the Abbey of Gethsemani, where Merton had been living as a T...

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