The Monk's Record Player: Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966

by Robert Hudson

Book Overview

The story of a monk, a minstrel, and the music that brought them together

In 1965 writer-activist-monk Thomas Merton fulfilled a twenty-four-year dream and went to live as a hermit beyond the walls of his Trappist monastery. Seven months later, after a secret romance with a woman half his age, he was in danger of losing it all. Yet on the very day that his abbot uncovered the affair, Merton found solace in an unlikely place--the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802875203
• ISBN13: 9780802875204
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"