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John Cornwell
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Seminary Boy |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Paperback |
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352 |
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2006 |
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0007244363 |
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4th Estate |
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0.79 pounds |
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5.35 x 8.27 x 1.18 inches |
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New e. |
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1 Helen Frances (Australia) |
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1 JDame (USA: ME) |
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Helen Frances (Australia) (2009/01/11):
John Cornwell decided to become a priest at the age of thirteen, a strange choice for a boy who'd been sent to a convalescent home for having whacked a nun about the head. Growing up in a chaotic household, sharing two rooms with his brothers and sisters, his hotheaded mother and, when he was around, absconding father. John spent his time roaming the wartorn streets of London looking for trouble. One day at his mother's suggestion he responded to a call from his local parish priest for altar servers. The dance of the rituals, the murmur of Latin and the candlelit dawn took hold of his imagination and provided him with a new and unexpected comfort. He left postwar London for Cotton a seminary in the West Midlands. In this hidden all-male world John grew up caught between his religious feelings and the rough and tumble of his life back in London; between seeking the face of God in the wild countryside around him and experiencing his first kiss; monitoring his soul and watching a girl from a moving train whose face he will never forget. Cornwell tells us of a world now vanished: of the colourful community of priests in charge; of the boys and their intense passionate friendships; of the hovering threat of abuse in this cloistered environment. And he tells us of his struggle to come to terms with a shameful secret from his childhood, a vicious sexual attack. A book of tremendous warmth and humour
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