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He was educated at the Seminary of Christ the King and the University of Victoria.
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Hail Mary Corner
( Taut, compelling, and remarkably assured, Hail Mary Cor...)
Taut, compelling, and remarkably assured, Hail Mary Corner thrusts readers into unfamiliar territory past an emotional frontier we all must cross: the uncertain ground between adolescence and adulthood. High on a cliff above a pulp-mill town on Vancouver Island, sixteen-year-old Bill MacAvoy and his friends lead cloistered lives while other boys their age run free. it may be the fall of 1982, but inside the walls of their Benedictine seminary they inhabit a medieval world steeped in ritual and discipline–a place where blackrobed monks move like shadows between doubt and faith. Isolated from the outside, Bill and his friends develop a unique and often hilarious culture. Schooled in the virtues of sacrifice and service, they instead learn to challenge, resist, and wield power over one another’s lives. On the road to certain expulsion, Bill discovers two secrets: one concerns Brother Thomas, the monk who watches his every move; the other involves his best friend, Jon. In Bill’s hands these secrets prove dangerous weapons. Handled carelessly, they trigger an event that threatens to haunt him for the rest of his life.
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Brian Payton
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Born in Los Angeles County in 1966, Payton lived in California, Illinois, Texas, New Mexico, and Alaska before settling in British Columbia at the age of 16. Payton’s first novel, Hail Mary Corner (Beach Holme), is a coming-of-age tale based on his experience living among fellow seminarians and Benedictine monks. His nonfiction writing about adventure, wildlife, and the environment has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, Canadian Geographic.
Shadow of the Bear: Travels in Vanishing Wilderness is published by Bloomsbury (United States of America) and Viking Press (Canada).
A work of narrative nonfiction, it chronicles a personal search for the eight remaining bear species across continents, cultures, and memory. Payton"s book The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness (Doubleday Canada), is a narrative nonfiction account of the final voyage of HMS Investigator.
His latest book, a novel, The Wind is Not a River is set in Alaska during the Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands of Attu and Kiska. The New York Times, in a review posted on January 31, 2014, called the book "gripping" and "meditative."
The Ice Passage: A True Story of Ambition, Disaster, and Endurance in the Arctic Wilderness (2009)
Shadow of the Bear: Travels in Vanishing Wilderness (2006)
Literary Trips: Following in the Footsteps of Fame, Volume
2 (anthology, 2001).
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Hail Mary Corner
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Hail Mary Corner
