{"product_id":"an-infinity-of-little-hours-five-young-men-and-their-trial-of-faith-in-the-western-worlds-most-austere-monastic-order-9781586484323","title":"An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nancy Klein Maguire\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Monasticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster, the largest center of the most rigorous and ascetic monastic order in the Western world: the Carthusians. This is the story of their five-year journey into a society virtually unchanged in its behavior and lifestyle since its foundation in 1084. \u003ci\u003eAn Infinity of Little Hours\u003c\/i\u003e is a uniquely intimate portrait of the customs and practices of a monastic order almost entirely unknown until now. It is also a drama of the men's struggle as they avoid the 1960s -- the decade of hedonism, music, fashion, and amorality -- and enter an entirely different era and a spiritual world of their own making. After five years each must face a choice: to make \"solemn profession\" and never leave Parkminster; or to turn his back on his life's ambition to find God in solitude. A remarkable investigative work, the book combines first-hand testimony with unique source material to describe the Carthusian life. And in the final chapter, which recounts a reunion forty years after the events described elsewhere in the book, Nancy Klein Maguire reveals which of the five succeeded in their quest, and which did not.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PublicAffairs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355811766423,"sku":"9781586484323","price":1666.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781586484323.webp?v=1767309103","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/an-infinity-of-little-hours-five-young-men-and-their-trial-of-faith-in-the-western-worlds-most-austere-monastic-order-9781586484323","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}