MERTON. A BIOGRAPHY.

San Francisco: Harper & Row Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1980), xx, 342pp, index, illustrated yellow boards with black spine titles, very clean and bright, in dust jacket with very minor rubbing, how housed in protective Brodart cover. A biography of the world famous monk/author who lived at the Trappist Monastery in Kentucky. From the dj: "Thomas Merton was a dynamic, fully flesh-and-blood modern man who dared to commit himself to a lifelong search for a meaningful and authentic way of life. His singular passion and boundless energy led him to combine in one rich life a unique variety of roles - prolific spiritual writer and poet, monk and hermit, social activist - all while living at the Trappist monastery in Kentucky. Straightforward yet graceful, MERTON gives a comprehensive recounting of his journeys, inner and outer, from his birth in France to his final days in Thailand. Monica Furlong details his unsettling, globetrotting youth, his exuberantly experimental university years at Cambridge and Columbia, his first steps as a writer, his dramatic conversion to Catholicism, his gradual finding of his own way as a monk, and the expansion of his horizons in later years into social concerns and encounters with Eastern mysticism, especially Zen and Taoism."