"A book that will fascinate readers, especially those who love
Merton, but really anyone with a sense of comic or profane humor,
and interest in spiritual motivation and direction, a fascination
with how two very separate and solitary individuals can merge their
identities to form a whole greater than the two parts." -- Bowling
Green Daily News
"A delight.... At the same time, they reveal serious struggles with
personal vocation and issues such as peace and the Cold War." --
Library Journal
"Here, in their garrulous exchange of letters spanning 30 years, we
see the childlike part of Merton: the innocent, eccentric,
irreverent, prankish Thomas Merton.... Even a reluctant reader will
be seduced by the rich brew of humor and wisdom that these letters
provide." -- Lexington Herald-Leader
"The letters are reckless, sophomoric, erudite, witty,
iconoclastic, frank, serious, youthfully exhuberant, scatological,
excessive, wordly, mystical, selfconsciously clever, earthy,
subversive, and holy -- but above all, charmingly human." -- Wade
Hall
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