THE BURIED LIFE

by Midge Turk ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 20, 1971

Since the days of Monica Baldwin, nuns have been leaving their convents with such monotonous regularity that the I-leaped-over-the-wall kind of story no longer has much to entice the reader. Miss Turk's book therefore starts with at least one strike against it. The author (who is now an editor of Glamour) makes the best of a bad situation, however, and offers something more than the usual litany of disenchantment with religious life. Along with the story of her personal odyssey from wide-eyed novice to convent-superior in California, she gives an account of the tribulations, and the eventual dissolution, of the Order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary -- her Order -- as the result of its differences with the arch-conservative Cardinal McIntyre. And she does it in a language and style that is many cuts above that to which readers of Catholic books, unfortunately, have become so accustomed. For the rest, the book is the expected account of revolt against unreasoning obedience to unreasonable superiors and their unreasoned rules. Rather old hat, but with a couple of bright new feathers.

Pub Date: May 20, 1971

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: World

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1971

Categories: NONFICTION