A vow of conversation
Subtitle: journals, 1964-1965
By: Thomas Merton ; edited and with a preface by Naomi Burton Stone.
Contributors: Stone, Naomi Burton.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968 -- Diaries.; Trappists -- United States -- Diaries.; Monks -- United States -- Diaries.
Description: The journal kept by Merton during 1964 and 1965, containing his daily meditations during the crucial and difficult period in which the permission he had awaited so long -- to live alone in his hermitage -- was finally given. These pages reveal his reflections as a hermit on the joys and dangers of a life of solitude in the woods. -- PUBLIHER DESCRIPTION.