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TURTLE FEET: The Making and Unmaking of a Buddhist Monk, by Nikolai Grozni. Riverhead Books. 326 pages. $24.95.

Nikolai Grozni, who lives in Providence, was a gifted pianist from Bulgaria who, in the midst of absorbing Coltrane, dope, and booze at Berklee College of Music, suddenly decided to leave behind materialist, "finish line" careerism and head to India to train as a Buddhist monk.

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