Author: Salzman, Mark
Title: Lying awake
Published: New York: Vintage Books, 2001
Description: 181 p. :ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number: PS3569 A4627 L95 2001
Note(s): California Gold: The Sacramento Valley Chapter of REFORMA Book Club (Selection)
Summary: In a Carmelite monastery outside present-day Los Angeles, Sister John of the Cross experiences visions of such dazzling power and insight that she is considered a spiritual master. But they are accompanied by powerful headaches, and when a doctor reveals they may be dangerous, she faces a devastating choice since she fears a "cure" may end her spiritual gifts
Subject(s):
- Carmelite Nuns Fiction
- Epileptics--Fiction
- Visions--Fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction
Review(s):
- Burkhart, Marian. "EPILEPSY OR ECSTASY?." Commonweal 128, no. 7 (April 6, 2001): 25
- Vivian, Tim. "Lying Awake (Book Review)." Anglican Theological Review 83, no. 2 (Spring 2001): 340
- Weschler, Lawrence. "THE NOVELIST AND THE NUN." New Yorker 76, no. 29 (October 2, 2000): 74
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