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Article: MORRIS WEST: A WRITER AND SPIRITUALITY.(Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- December 25, 1998
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MORRIS WEST: A WRITER AND SPIRITUALITY By Maryanne Confoy HarperCollins Religious, 173 pages, paperback, $22
Wandering through Scotland once in the throes of a prolonged writer's block, Morris West was christened a Seannachi. In a pub, anointed by the locals, he was given the gift of storytelling all over again. In a world spinning out of control, the Seannachi "express the gift, the grace, it you will, which holds them together." Storytelling has held West together, he would readily admit, and has also been the lifeline he offers to people who are trying to hold their own worlds together.
Morris West is a prolific writer of nearly 30 novels and plays as ...