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  by Maurice C. Fillion
  ISBN13: 978-1-4257-0996-9 (Trade Paperback)
  ISBN: 1-4257-0996-6 (Trade Paperback)
  ISBN13: 978-1-4257-0997-6 (Hardback)
  ISBN: 1-4257-0997-4 (Hardback)
  Pages: 232
  Subject: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General

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Paperback prices reflect 15% discount off retail
Hardback prices reflect 10% discount off retail

Description

A boy is born in 1921 of fervently Catholic, Franco-American parents, in a paper-mill town on the edge of New Hampshire’s Great North Woods. His father dies from heart failure at age 32 and his mother remains single to raise her five children. The boy grows up during the Great Depression of the 1930s, sharing a tight neighborhood with his Italian friends, immersed in a culture that blends French Canadian traditions with newfound American ways. He attends the Catholic parochial school that rises 200 feet from his home, and at 13 he leaves for the seminary.

From his geographically and culturally confined birthplace, he transfers into 12 years behind cloistered walls, cut off from the world outside. Bright, ambitious, strongly attracted to the opposite sex, he struggles against suffocating sexual norms and the dominance of his religious superiors. In the end, still doubtful of his calling, he relies on his counselors and on the voice of circumstance, and convinces himself that God wants him to be a priest. At age 25 he is ordained.

Twenty years later he will leave the priesthood, a living reminder that each human soul has a sacred need to be free.

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