- Artists, Talent, Adolescence, Fiction, family life
*The Small Rain*, an adult novel, focuses on Katherine Forrester, the daughter of distinguished musical artists, whose career as a concert pianist evolves through loves and losses. Katherine is a child growing up in a refined, yet bohemian, artistic ambience--theatrical as well as musical . . . . [Her] adolescence is lonely and difficult, but as Katherine advances to young womanhood, her heart as well as her talent is promisingly engaged (*Publishers Weekl*y).
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and spare.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Madeleine L'Engle
- First published
- 1945
- Pages
- 371
- Publisher
- Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, The Vanguard Press
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781504049429
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