The cloister : a novel
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Published
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2017.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
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Father Michael Kavanagh is shocked to see a friend from his seminary days named Runner Malloy at the altar of his humble Inwood community parish. Wondering about their past, he wanders into the medieval haven of The Cloisters, and begins a conversation with a lovely and intriguing museum guide, Rachel Vedette. Rachel, a scholar of medieval history, has retreated to the quiet of The Cloisters after her harrowing experience as a Jewish woman in France during the Holocaust. She ponders her late father's greatest intellectual work: a study demonstrating the relationship between the famously discredited monk Peter Abelard and Jewish scholars. Something about Father Kavanagh makes Rachel think he might appreciate her continued studies, and she shares with him the work that cost her father his life. At the center of these interrelated stories is the classic romance between the great scholar Peter Abelard and his intellectual equal Héloïse. For Rachel, Abelard is the key to understanding her people's place in intellectual history. For Kavanagh, he is a doorway to understanding the life he might have had outside of the Church -- from Amazon.
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LC Subjects
Abelard, Peter, -- 1079-1142 -- Fiction.
Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Fiction.
Cloisters (Museum) -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Holocaust survivors -- Fiction.
Héloïse, -- approximately 1095-1163 or 1164 -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei -- Fiction.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
Priests -- Fiction.
Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Fiction.
Cloisters (Museum) -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Holocaust survivors -- Fiction.
Héloïse, -- approximately 1095-1163 or 1164 -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei -- Fiction.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
Priests -- Fiction.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Carroll, J. (2017). The cloister: a novel (First Edition.). Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Carroll, James, 1943-. 2017. The Cloister: A Novel. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Carroll, James, 1943-. The Cloister: A Novel Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Carroll, James. The Cloister: A Novel First Edition., Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2017.
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