'Music at Midnight,' by John Drury

Thomas Nevin rsquo s The Last Years of Saint Th r se the sequel to his Th r se of Lisieux God rsquo s Gentle Warrior is at once beautiful and maddening It describes the final years of Th r se rsquo s life in great detail and with helpful insights but does it in blustery and reductive pros

In the four most productive years of Thomas Aquinas rsquo life the man produced the equivalent of two or three average-length novels every month For all the words he wrote however an immense silence lies at the heart of Thomas There is of course the silence of the Summa which he left unfini