"A religious cliff-hanger--intimate, compelling, hard to put down."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Eager to shake off the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing, Patricia Hample seeks the "old world" of Catholicism. On her pilgrimage she meets others seekers--crotchety English agnostics, American Franciscan friars and nuns, and the seekers that fill every charter flight. Inevitably, too, she finds the "old world" right at home, in the very past she had tried to escape. But what she is looking for confronts her, finally, on a rereat at a monastery near the Lost Coast of northern California in the still, virgin moments of silent prayer....
- ISBN10 0865477167
- ISBN13 9780865477162
- Publish Date 20 April 2005 (first published 1 August 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint North Point Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 241
- Language English