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100 1 $aLarsen, Deborah.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90704057
245 14 $aThe tulip and the Pope /$cDeborah Larsen.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c2005.
300 $axiii, 265 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 261-265).
520 1 $a"In the heat of midsummer, in 1960, nineteen-year-old Deborah and several other young women share a cab to a convent on the Iowa bluffs of the Mississippi River. The girls, passionate to become nuns, heedless of all they are leaving behind, smoke their last cigarettes along the way and enter their life as postulants." "Larsen's memoir lets us into the hushed life inside the convent. We learn about such practices as "custody of the eyes," the proper devotion to the rule of one's superiors, and the importance of avoiding "particular friendships." Her intimate episodic account captures the exquisite sense of peace - even of Presence - that dwelt among the women, as well as the strangeness of living under such strict rules. Gradually, she admits to a growing awareness that there is much life and beauty outside the motherhouse, which she is missing. The physical world - the lush experience of the tulip she stared at in the garden as a girl, the snow she tunneled in, and even the mystery of sex - begins to seem to her a significant alternative theater for a deep understanding and love to God." "With The Tulip and the Pope, Larsen delivers an exploration of Christian experience and young womanhood in a more innocent time, and a message of devotion that extends far beyond the high walls of the convent."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aLarsen, Deborah.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90704057
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100576
650 0 $aCatholics$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100009
650 0 $aEx-nuns$zUnited States$vBiography.
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