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Book

The bell

Call Number

  • FICTION MURD (CEN, OSH)

Publication Information

New York : Penguin Books, 2001, ©1958.

Physical Description

xvi, 296 pages ; 20 cm.

Summary

The story of a lay community of mixed-up people encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns, including Dora Greenfield, an erring wife who returns to her husband, and Michael Meade, who is confronted by his homosexual former lover.

Notes

Originally published in the U.S. by Viking Press in 1958.

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