The Roundtable

"The Cloister" By James Carroll

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published March 23, 2018 at 10:34 AM EDT
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James Carroll is a National Book Award winner and distinguished scholar in residence at Suffolk University and a columnist for The Boston Globe. He is the author of ten novels and seven works of fiction.

"The Cloister" is his novel about the timeless love story of Peter Abelard and Héloïse, and its impact on a modern priest and a Holocaust survivor seeking sanctuary in Manhattan.

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