Katherine meets an old friend from the past and find out that he had become a priest but is now in retirement.
So, when wisdom is the main goal in the story (or life) and everything else is subdued to it, there is a chance of converting a novel intWisdom, happiness, freedom and lots of other things are so desirable that we pursue them purely for themselves, though they are only attainable as means or by-products of our other, less tempting goals. He asks her to give a benefit concert; after initial rejection she accepts and we see how she begins to form a new chapter of her life. There were certainly some wonderful lines in this book, and continuing Katherine's story is a treat, but I do agree with other reviews that mentioned that at times the soap opera melodrama is heaped on. As the story of her involvement with all these people continues, bits and pieces of her past life are given us: her marriage, her incarceration in France during WWII, and her children.
[Madeleine L'Engle] -- Pianist Katherine Forrestr Vigneras, in her seventies and retired, discovers new meaning in life when she agrees to give a benefit concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New York. She struggles initially to settle in, and is surprised to have contact with a friend from the past, one she never expected to enter the religious life, is now a former bishop. 23 November, 2007 . Once, I used this novel as a devotional to try to mix-up my Bible Study routine, and tried to find the workings of God in every character in every page. Such was the case with the present book. !
To write a review full of spoilers would take away the potential for that pleasure from future readers, so please excuse me if I avoid plot details entirely.One of the great pleasures for me in reading this book is the chapter by chapter unfolding of the petals of a great blossom, the way perspective and points of view shift on astounding plot turns revealing completely new ways of looking at the cast of characters and the rest of the book. But I recently reread "The Small Rain" and decided to continue on with this.I know I read this book before, but probably when I was too young to appreciate it, because I remember so little of it. Buy A Severed Wasp third Printing by L'Engle, Madeleine (ISBN: 9780374517830) from Amazon's Book Store. Katherine comes back to New York, in hopes of retirement from her life as a concert pianist. Themes are love, loss, friendships with people who work in churches, piano and organ playing, classical music, age, reflection, community, and New York. The story moves from Europe to New York and centers around a church there, and I think that I'm just not that interested in the new setting. As I grew older, I was given books like this one, or A Live Coal in the Sea, and I fell in love all over again. "A Severed Wasp" kept me engaged and I read it quickly.
I'm not sure if it's because the book is older than much of what I read (copyright early 1980's) or if I just am not all that drawn into Ever since I was in divinity school I have heard about L'Engle's books. That clear-eyed joy in all things was what drew me to her works.This was an uglier read than I remembered. She meets her old friend Felix, who is now a bishop at a great cathedral.
But only a little bit. Katherine is now an elderly woman, widowed, with grandchildren. Maybe I'll come back to it in three or four decades and find it's much better than I remember. The more I got into Katherine's psyche and her past, though, the more attached I became. Widowed for many years and beginning to feel her age, she hopes to sit back now and relax. And in dribs and drabs in between all that there was some plot. Justin was originally Katherine's piano teacher but after his hands were broken in the POW camp he became a composer and no longer was able to play but continued to push Katherine in her career. She struggles initially to settle in, and is surprised to have contact with a friend from the past, one she never expected to enter the religious life, is now a former bishop. I kept reading this one hoping I would like it more than I did - it was very slow and measured, and everyone sat around at drank tea a lot. That certainty is what makes this book not as good as it could be.
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