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Reviews of:

A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life

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01A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life"Is it really a good idea to know this person so well?" I mused upon finishing the third of sevenThurston, Bonnie B. America 175.14 (9 November 1996): 24-26. Bonnie Thurston
1996
02The Restless monkThomas Merton's journals passes the half-way point and we come within five years of his death. TheyArchdeacon, Denis Catholic Herald [London] (13 June 1997): 6. Denis Archdeacon
1997
03Prose into prayer: Merton in his journalsThe Thomas Merton revealed in these journals is the quintessentially restless American, everCarr, Anne E. Christian Century 113.18 (22-29 May 1996): 570-571. Anne E. Carr
1996
04A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True LifeThis third and so far most evocative of Thomas Merton's personal journals spans the years from JulyAitken, Beverly Cistercian Studies Quarterly 33.2 (1998): 236-237. Beverly Aitken
1998
05Five Volumes & CountingWriting to Thomas Merton in 1960, the poet Czeslaw Milosz reflected that we moderns "lack an imagePrusak, Bernard G. Commonweal 124.15 (12 September 1997): 36-37. Bernard G. Prusak
1997
06Merton's Years of FrustrationThomas Merton was surely one of the most cosmopolitan people ever to reside in rural Kentucky. BornRunyon, Keith L. Courier Journal [Louisville] (22 June 1996): A13. Keith L. Runyon
1996
07Merton, ThomasThe third in this publisher's projected seven-volume publication of Merton's journals contains theCarrigan, Henry Library Journal (1 May 1996): 100. Henry Carrigan
1996
08Another journal shows Merton still speaks to us"Out here in the woods," he wrote, "I can think of nothing except God, and it is not so much that IDear, John National Catholic Reporter 33.5 (22 November 1996): 17. John Dear
1996
09A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True LifeA Cistercian monk and author of the bestselling The Seven Storey Mountain, Merton records in his  Publishers Weekly 243.20 (13 May 1996): 68. John Dear
1996
10Book ReviewsThomas Merton published so many items drawn from his journals and so many Mertonophiles are laboringHinson, Glenn Review & Expositor [Louisville] 94 (Spring 1997): 321-322. Glenn Hinson
1997
11 Like the first two volumes of Merton's journals, this third volume is full of insight into his lifeSchroeder, Steve Booklist [Chicago] 92.21 (15 July 1996): 1782.
1996
12The Uncensored MertonOne March, not long after we were married, my wife put on her birthday wish-listJones, Timothy Books & Culture: A Christian Review [London]6.6 (Nov.-Dec. 2000): 25-31.
2000
13 I may have said before when reviewing the previous volumes as how I seemed to have had so many commonEastman, Patrick Monos 9.4 (Jul/Aug 1997): 8.
1997
ANNUAL A Search for Solitude, the third volume of Merton's published journals, covers the yearsEllsberg, Robert Merton Annual 10: 331-333 [online].
http://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/10/EllsbergRevSS331-333.pdf
1997
JOURNAL Last year saw the appearance of the third and fourth volumes of the seven projectedPearson, Paul M. Merton Journal [UK] 4.2 (Advent 1997): 57-62.
http://www.thomasmertonsociety.org/Journal/04/4-2PearsonRevMerton.pdf
1997
SEASONALA Fresh Air InterludeIn the third volume of Thomas Merton's Journals, A Search for Solitude, Merton tells the story of aRuttle, Paul, C.P. Merton Seasonal 21:3 (Fall 1996): 22-25.
http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/21/21-3RuttleRevSS.pdf
1996