- Fiction, Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, N.Y.), Older women, Pianists
Katherine Forrester Vigneras, in a continuation of her story from *The Small Rain*, returns to New York City from Europe to retire. Now in her seventies, she encounters an old friend from her Greenwich Village days who, it turns out, is the former Bishop of New York. He asks Katherine to give a benefit concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. This leads to new demands on her resources--human, artistic, psychological, and spiritual--that are entirely unexpected.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Madeleine L'Engle
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 388
- Publisher
- FSG 1982/82, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781504047746
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- Fiction
- Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, N.Y.)
- Older women
- Pianists
- Holocaust survivors
- Pianists, biography
- Friendship
- Fiction, psychological
- Musicians, fiction
- Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Pianists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Older women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
“The very size of the Cathedral was a surprise.”
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