02173cam a2200397 4500 759325050 TxAuBib 20180423120000.0 180322t20182017||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9781432850128 lg. print : alk. paper 1432850121 lg. print : alk. paper KyBuM KyBuM TxGR TxAuBib Carroll, James, 1943- The Cloister [Large Type Book] / James Carroll. Large print ed. Farmington Hills, Mich : Wheeler Pub./Gale Cengage Co., 2018. ©2017. 647 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. Wheeler Publishing large print hardcover. "A novel"--Cover. "Father Michael Kavanagh is shocked to see an old seminary friend at the altar of his Inwood parish. Wondering about their past, he wanders into the medieval haven of The Cloisters and begins a conversation with museum guide Rachel Vedette. Rachel, a scholar of medieval history, has retreated to The Cloisters after her harrowing experience as a Jewish woman in France during the Holocaust. At the center of these interrelated stories is the romance between Peter Abelard and Héloïse. For Rachel, Abelard is the key to understanding her people's place in intellectual history. For Kavanagh, he is a doorway to understanding the life he might have had outside of the Church"--Back cover. 20180423. Héloïse approximately 1095-1163 or 1164 Fiction. Abelard, Peter 1079-1142 Fiction. Catholic Church Clergy Fiction. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei Fiction. Cloisters (Museum) Fiction. Holocaust survivors Fiction. Priests Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Paris (France) Fiction. Historical fiction. Wheeler Publishing large print hardcover. RV8