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Seminary boy / John Cornwell.
Van Pelt Library BX920.C78 C67 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cornwell, John, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cornwell, John, 1940---Childhood and youth.
- Cornwell, John.
- Cornwell, John, 1940-.
- Cotton College--Alumni and alumnae--Biography.
- Cotton College.
- Seminarians--England--Biography.
- Seminarians.
- Alumni and alumnae.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 321 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, [2006]
- Summary:
- Until the late 1960s it was common for Catholic boys around the world to be sent away to seminary to study for the priesthood. These boys were often as young as eleven when they were taken out of school, removed from their families, and sent to an all-male environment where their identities would be shaped in an atmosphere of strict religious discipline and unacknowledged adolescent desires. Author John Cornwell was one such boy, sent to the seminary of St. Wilfred's, on the outskirts of the English city of Birmingham. Seminary Boy is the remarkable, by turns disturbing and poignant, account of his years at St. Wilfred, where he was sent at age thirteen.
- ISBN:
- 0385541864
- 0385514867
- OCLC:
- 62741494
- Publisher Number:
- 9780385541866
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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