- Paperback: 405 pages
- Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc. (3 Mar 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0345434773
- ISBN-13: 978-0345434777
- Product Dimensions: 13 x 2.3 x 20.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,151,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I continue to be fascinated and amazed by this author's creativity and plot development. I read every word of this story. There was a combination of interesting characters, facts and story. Margaret's descriptions of her life and relationship with Adrian included elements of conflict, love, beauty, and confusion. The additional characters, including parishoners, friends and adversaries were developed with creativity that kept me wondering and wanting to know more about them. I was also intrigued by the historical and factual material, most of which I had no previous knowledge.
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Format:Hardcover
I own Godwin's novels and like her fiction works, each one read more than once..first to enjoy, second to relish the substance and her style. I did not care for this sequal to "Father Melancholy's Daughter," original, executed with subtle skill, leaving one wanting to know more about Margaret Gower's life. In "Evensong," Godwin seems to struggle too hard with her narrative and characters in an obstructive, over-written, authorial self-consciousness.
I shall remain a Godwin fan, however. Out of her imagination, or her unconscious,(?) arise some secondary, wonderfully, obnoxious female characters, which she kills off, or does she integrate them? I hope she brings up more of them!
Format:Hardcover
I wanted to review this book and am at a loss for words. Why? It is so unsurpassingly excellent. As soon as I finished it I reread book a second time and I have never done that before. I zeroxed pages and sent to friends. Why the enthusiasm? The story is about two Episcopal priests, mainly about the woman priest married to a husband priest. She has many problems -- her mother deserted her father, her husband suffers from cruel memories of his childhood. It is the author's attitude toward life and suffering which captivated me. Of course the role God plays in these lives is strikingly and subletly expressed. Our heroine finds meaning and purpose in life, although she too suffers. Evensong is second book about these characters. Father Meloncholy was first and I pray there will be a third.
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Where's the story?
This is my first Godwin book; I did not read "Father Melancholy." This book rambles shamelessly. Read more
Published on 1 Sep 1999
A bit of a disappointment from a big Father Melancholy fan
Even ten years after its publication, I still hold Father Melancholy's Daughter as the best book to come out of the south in years. Read more
Published on 28 Jun 1999
Good, but does not live up to Father Melancholy
I couldn't wait to read this one to find out what had happened to the characters from Father Melancholy. Be sure to read Father Melancholy's Daughter first if at all possible. Read more
Published on 28 Jun 1999
Great subject, shallow treatment!
The trials of a woman in the Episcopalian priesthood should provide material for a great narrative! Read more
Published on 23 May 1999
Grows on you slowly but stays with you a long time
While I was reading "Evensong" I sometimes found it easy to put down, but several weeks and several books later, it is still on my mind. Read more
Published on 6 May 1999
Well crafted and excellent research
Gail Godwin weaves a good story and I was very impressed with her knowledge of life as a woman priest in seminary, as a rector and as a wife. Read more
Published on 13 April 1999
Who wouldn't want Margaret for their pastor?
This is my first Gail Godwin novel--I will certainly turn to the others. The narrator, Pastor Margaret, is a fully realized character: engaging, brilliant, passionate, flawed,... Read more
Published on 4 April 1999
Jan Karon, not Gail Godwin, fans will like this one!
As a fan of Gail Godwin, I couldn't wait to delve once again into the world of human relationships, spirituality, and the complexities that develop between the two. Read more
Published on 28 Mar 1999
"Evensong" is no "Father Melancholy's Daughter"
I've read all of Gail Godwin's books, and own most of them, and I am disappointed to say that this one just didn't do a thing for me. Read more
Published on 24 Mar 1999
Powerful
Godwin has written a treasure of a novel. She writes hauntingly of the struggles of everyday life, marriage, family, career and most profoundly, of God. Read more
Published on 8 Mar 1999
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