Evensong

Zusatztext "Rich. Satisfying. Luscious . . . Evensong reawakened in these weary eyeballs the joy of reading. . . . It's that old-fashioned concept! a good read." --USA Today "A DEEPLY CONSIDERED! EVEN DIGNIFIED NOVEL . . . One stays engaged with the story for sheer narrative hook: As with story lines from Dickens . . . you simply want to find out who does what to whom. . . . The final beauty of Evensong is its ability to address God--to address the mystery of faith by comprehending! then embracing! this premise of uncertainty itself." --The Boston Sunday Globe "EVENSONG LINGERS IN THE MIND. . . . Meticulousness and precision are! indeed! Godwin's greatest strengths. In matters liturgical and clerical! her command is impeccable." --The New York Times Book Review "[A] SENSITIVE! PERFECTLY PACED NOVEL . . . A story full of fresh! spiritual wisdom . . . Smashing one of the strangest taboos in American literature! Godwin may have finally brought religion back from the wilderness and made it a safe subject for literary fiction." --The Christian Science Monitor "[A] RICH NEW NOVEL . . . with the narrative verve and moral gravity that made earlier novels of hers so appealing." --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt    The New York Times Informationen zum Autor Gail Godwin Klappentext To read Gail Godwin is to touch the very core of human experience. With inimitable grace and aching emotional precision, Godwin probes our own complexities in characters whose lives oscillate between success and struggle, stoic resolve and quixotic temptation, bitter disappointment and small, sacred joys. Now with Evensong, she again translates our everyday existence into soul-touching truths as she brings to brilliantly realized life the people of a small Smoky Mountain town--and a woman whose world is indelibly altered by them.I SHIELD THE JOYOUS O It all began on a Friday evening. I mean "began" in the old storytelling sense, for oftener than not what we call beginnings are fulfillments of things set in motion a long time ago. It was the Friday evening before the first Sunday in Advent, that season of spiritual expectation in the Church calendar: a clear, frosty evening at the end of November, with a bite to it. Winter in the Great Smokies would shortly be upon us, the winter that would see us into the next century and the new millennium. Other things were on their way to us as well, things we neither anticipated nor, in some cases, could even imagine. This is the story of how we met them and were changed by them. My husband and I had eaten an early supper together, some of his chili, perfected during his extended bachelor years, and then he was off to the school again. I was rinsing our dishes under the tap, brooding--but with a fair amount of equanimity by this time--over the fact that he had neglected to kiss me again. I heard his car start, but it didn't go anywhere, and then there he was, back in the kitchen, his face already ruddy from the cold. "Stubborn girl. You were supposed to lock the door behind me." "What did you forget?" To kiss you, I was hoping he would say. "Time for my wool cap. 'While the earth remaineth, summer and winter shall not cease,' and the bald head shall cry anew for its covering." Adrian liked to improvise on scripture. "Now where did I--" "All your hats and gloves are in the box in the hall closet. Labeled 'Winter.'" "The things you do for me, Margaret." "I did it for myself, too. My winter things are in there along with yours." During the minute or so that it took him to dash down the hall, locate his old Navy watch cap, and return to the kitchen in the act of pulling it snugly down to his eyebrows, I was granted a little blip of respite. Things had not been well between us since last summer, but during this momentary spot of light, I entered a different kind of time. Significan...

Product details

• Authors: Gail Godwin
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2000
• EAN: 9780345434777
• ISBN: 978-0-345-43477-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle; Ballantine Reader's Circle
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature