{"product_id":"virgin-time-9780345384249","title":"Virgin Time","description":"\"A religious cliff-hanger--intimate, compelling, hard to put down.\"\u003cbr\u003eSAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE\u003cbr\u003eEager to shake off the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing, Patricia Hample seeks the \"old world\" of Catholicism. On her pilgrimage she meets others seekers--crotchety English agnostics, American Franciscan friars and nuns, and the seekers that fill every charter flight. Inevitably, too, she finds the \"old world\" right at home, in the very past she had tried to escape. But what she is looking for confronts her, finally, on a rereat at a monastery near the Lost Coast of northern California in the still, virgin moments of silent prayer....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Hampl\u003c\/b\u003e first stepped onto the literary scene with \u003ci\u003eA Romantic Education\u003c\/i\u003e, a Cold War memoir about her Czech heritage. Four of her books have been named Notable Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Hampl's work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta, The American Scholar, \u003c\/i\u003e the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAmerican Essays\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1990 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In addition, she has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Bush Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (twice, in poetry and prose), Ingram Merrill Foundation and Djerassi Foundation. Hampl teaches fall semesters in the English MFA program at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323577667858,"sku":"9780345384249","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0249a82d-92f4-4c4a-a5b0-c5180ae0f104.jpg?v=1727659172","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/virgin-time-9780345384249","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}