THE PRISM by Jennifer Lash
Doubleday & Company, Inc.
 Garden City, New York, 1963
Copyright 1962 by Jennifer Lash
 Printed in the United States of America
First Edition in The United States of America
 

From the British reviews.....

"That a young writer should choose a cosmic theme is almost to be expected;
what surprises here is Ms. Lash's insight.  She can expose the imperfections,
the frailties, the foolishness, what may seem to be the hypocrisies
of her characters without either feeling or inspiring the revulsion
that leads to cynicism.  The secret is compassion, a rare virtue in youth.
In its radiance the characters...have life and reality."

                           ---------------Times Literary Supplement
 

        "It is indeed astonishing that a young woman of twenty-two should
 have the insight and the knowledge to write so remarkable a novel on
the life of a monastery.  No one could read it without being made to
 reflect human endeavour to respond to that love in the wilderness of
     this world.  The issues involved are of universal Christian application....A  Novel as distinguished in style as in characterization."

                            --------------------Church Times
 

        "An exceptional novel...a book of intense feeling.  To have chosen a theme like this might argue pretentiousness...there is no such flaw on a forceful, fast-moving plot and a sensitive handling of a group of normally venerable human beings."

                            ----------------------Vernon Fane, Sphere
 

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