Interpretation, January 1st, 2006
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2003. 555 pp. $15.00. ISBN 0-374-52921-3.
PAUL ELIE OFFERS us a brilliant "group biography"-an intricate braiding of four spiritual journeys. It is a compelling tapestry containing the literature, interconnections, and commitments of mid-20th-century Catholic American writers Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, and Flannery O'Connor. In New York, the nonconformist and activist Day founded the Catholic Worker Movement with Peter Maurin. In Kentucky, the urbane and cosmopolitan Mert...
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