Houghton Mifflin, 1984, Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Book itself Very Good to Near Fine; jacket shows wear along edges and a tear at foredge of rear jacket flap. Binding firm, text pristine. Signed and personalized by author to previous owner on title page, November 13, 1984. Text pristine.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin (T) November 1984

Publication Date

1984

Language

English

ISBN 10

0395313244

ISBN 13

9780395313244

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Printing

First Edition

Condition

Collectible - Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Good

Signed

Signed By Author

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Spiritual Life

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Synopsis

Derived from Merton's personal journals and letters, and from the recollections of intimate friends, this authorized narrative catches the character of the man, the artist, and the Catholic priest

Review

While many biographies and studies of the writer and monk Thomas Merton have been published over the years, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton remains the official biography sanctioned by the Thomas Merton Legacy Trust. Mott was given access to all of the private journals that, according to Merton's legacy, were not to be made public for 25 years after his death. (These have now been released; see for example The Intimate Merton, which contains a selection of these journal entries.) Mott's goal in this work was to approach the writer in a balanced manner--to correct the record where Merton himself may have had the facts wrong (early childhood material, for example), and to offer a different interpretation at times from the one Merton himself comes to in his own autobiographical writings. Above all Mott is not writing hagiography: this is no life of a saint, at least not in the stereotyped sense. But it is clearly the life of a real 20th-century man who, along with the expected dead ends and blind alleys, did find himself listening to a real call and following it as deeply and as passionately as his life would allow. And who knows? Perhaps that's a good definition of saint. --Doug Thorpe

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