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Unnerved by the memories, she starts sleepwalking again, stopping only when she trips over a bloody corpse one night in her yard ... death in the cellar of the convent. In the classic procedural ...
Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional takes place both on this existential plane and in a convent in the Australian outback during a plague. The novel's brief allusions to masks and travel ...
On the morning of June 13, 1977, Sister Roberta “Robin” Elam strolled out of her convent in Wheeling ... She was lying on her back about 40 yards away from an overturned bench. Her pants and underwear ...
The convent chapel is empty except for two women ... toward the center aisle -- and each other -- rather than the altar. Yards of sheer fabric in lavender and pale pink drape the crucifix on ...
Stone Yard Devotional emerged from strange experiences ... backdrop as I wrote about an atheist woman arriving at a Catholic convent. Do you think works of fiction are obligated to engage in ...
Sister Lorna, 72, was just yards from the door of her convent when a thief ran up behind her and grabbed her handbag. The mugger got away with only an umbrella and a bus timetable because his ...
So it’s a relief to find that there isn’t a sofa in sight in “The Convent,” nor even a pouf or a pew. Instead, Jessica Dickey’s new drama, which opened on Thursday evening in a handsome ...
It takes 90 minutes for a yard to be woven on the convent’s clanking mechanical looms, and up to a week to fit the machines with the cloth pattern. Some fabric is imported from Italy ...