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

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

Author: Robert Hudson, David Dalton

Publisher: Eerdmans

Publication date: March 14, 2018

Format: Hardcover – March 14, 2018

Edition: 2nd Printing Edition

Language: English

Print length: 263 pages

ISBN-10: 0802875203

ISBN-13: 978-0802875204

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 songs of Bob Dylan, who, as fate would have it, was experiencing his own personal and creative crises during the summer of 1966. In this striking parallel biography of two countercultural icons, Robert Hudson plumbs the depths of Dylan’s surprising influence on Merton’s life and writing, recounts each man’s interactions with the woman who linked them together—Joan Baez—and shows how each transcended his immediate troubles and went on to new heights of spiritual and artistic genius. Readers will discover here a riveting story of creativity and crisis, burnout and redemption, in the tumultuous era of 1960s America.

Robert Hudson is a recognized Bob Dylan scholar, a member of the International Thomas Merton Society, and a veteran editor who has worked with a number of best-selling authors, including Philip Yancey, Walter Wangerin Jr., Leonard Sweet, and Lee Strobel. He and his wife, Shelley, play in the old-time string band Gooder'n Grits.

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