{"product_id":"infinity-of-little-hours-five-young-men-and-their-trial-of-faith-in-the-western-worlds-most-austere-monastic-order","title":"Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eInfinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eNancy Klein Maguire\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781586484323\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePublicAffairs\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2007\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eNew edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e304\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster, the largest center of the most rigorous and ascetic monastic order in the Western world: the Carthusians. This is the story of their five-year journey into a society virtually unchanged in its behavior and lifestyle since its foundation in 1084. \u003cem\u003eAn Infinity of Little Hours\u003c\/em\u003e is a uniquely intimate portrait of the customs and practices of a monastic order almost entirely unknown until now. It is also a drama of the men's struggle as they avoid the 1960s--the decade of hedonism, music, fashion, and amorality--and enter an entirely different era and a spiritual world of their own making. After five years each must face a choice: to make \"solemn profession\" and never leave Parkminster; or to turn his back on his life's ambition to find God in solitude. A remarkable investigative work, the book combines first-hand testimony with unique source material to describe the Carthusian life. And in the final chapter, which recounts a reunion forty years after the events described elsewhere in the book, Nancy Klein Maguire reveals which of the five succeeded in their quest, and which did not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order | Nancy Klein Maguire | Paperback | 9781586484323 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks D 1783155","offer_id":67579614068888,"sku":"1783155","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71dmE1N-G-L.jpg?v=1790363593","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/infinity-of-little-hours-five-young-men-and-their-trial-of-faith-in-the-western-worlds-most-austere-monastic-order","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}