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A Winter's Love
Tenuously holding on to a failing marriage, Emily Bowen finds herself caught up in a relationship with a man who offers her the love and affection she so desperately desires.
Mass Market Paperback, 0 pages
Published
January 12th 1984
by Ballantine Books
(first published January 12th 1957)
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This came to my attention when I asked Pamela Dean (in a comment to a post on her LiveJournal) how she came to name the character Con from The Dubious Hills. This book was half of the answer.
As I was awake far too late last night reading this, I found myself in awe at the breadth of what L'Engle was capable of as a writer. Also I experienced a small illumination: this book made me think that literature is separated from other reading material by its requirement of sensitivity (or awareness, or p...more
As I was awake far too late last night reading this, I found myself in awe at the breadth of what L'Engle was capable of as a writer. Also I experienced a small illumination: this book made me think that literature is separated from other reading material by its requirement of sensitivity (or awareness, or p...more
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It's about time I got some Madeleine on here -- she is one of my favorite authors and I was greatly saddened at her passing in 2007. Every now and then I take down a book of hers and read it again. It's like being with an old friend.
A Winter's Love is one of her earlier works and should be read with a warm blanket surrounding you -- it is indeed a winter story, taking place just before Christmas in the French Alps back in the years after WWII, with people skiing everywhere, lots of smoking, and...more
A Winter's Love is one of her earlier works and should be read with a warm blanket surrounding you -- it is indeed a winter story, taking place just before Christmas in the French Alps back in the years after WWII, with people skiing everywhere, lots of smoking, and...more
The story is ok, but oh, my I do love L'Engles way with words and descriptive power. I still prefer her kid's/YA books I think, but I'm only about 1/3 of the way through this at the moment. Time will tell.
I skipped and skimmed through most of this book after chapter 3, since I found I just didn't care about any of the characters or what happened to them. Sorry if this is a book you love, but it just didn't work for me.
I much prefer L'Engle's fantasy Time series and some of her nonfiction I've re...more
I skipped and skimmed through most of this book after chapter 3, since I found I just didn't care about any of the characters or what happened to them. Sorry if this is a book you love, but it just didn't work for me.
I much prefer L'Engle's fantasy Time series and some of her nonfiction I've re...more
In her fourth novel, the one just preceding her breakout, A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle takes a common plot and creates a moving story. Emily is a wife and mother of two daughters. Her husband, Courtney, a Classics professor, has lost his teaching position at an Eastern American college, causing the family to follow him into a "sabbatical" in a French Alpine resort town. Courtney is suffering from depression, loss of confidence and midlife crisis. He has retreated emotionally and left Em...more
Would recommend: Maybe
A Winter's Love is beautifully written, and it felt kind of like Ethan Frome to me because the winter setting was so well-described. The crux of this book is that the main character, Emily, is tempted to have an affair with her friend, Abe, and the story builds on that tension. But I never really understood why she loved Abe, only why her marriage was unhappy, so the conflict was not entirely compelling for me. However, this was the latest addition to my Madeleine L'Engle c...more
A Winter's Love is beautifully written, and it felt kind of like Ethan Frome to me because the winter setting was so well-described. The crux of this book is that the main character, Emily, is tempted to have an affair with her friend, Abe, and the story builds on that tension. But I never really understood why she loved Abe, only why her marriage was unhappy, so the conflict was not entirely compelling for me. However, this was the latest addition to my Madeleine L'Engle c...more
This book is like a book you would be assigned to read in a Women's Studies class, the turmoil of a wife and mother (Emily) who is in a dull lifeless marraige with a husband who has gone distant...and she falls in love. The man she is in love with and her give life to both of them, yet they seriously consider what it means for her to break the bonds of matrimony, the promises she has made. The story has other odd characters ( a dying best friend and her live in boyfriend) but the central theme o...more
This book is absolutely excellent. I read it right after I had finished "Love Letters" (also by L'Engle) and the themes of the two are very much the same. I really enjoyed reading the back to back because it really emphasized what L'Engle was trying to work through as she thought about marriage and happiness. A must read. Both of them.
The topic (adultery) made me generally uncomfortable and the tropes that L'Engle uses (the shy artistic girl, the woman who plays piano, etc.) start to wear a little thin, when you've read them all in the works she wrote previously.
I enjoyed it. Not as much as some of her others, but well worth reading.
I had an older copy of the book that advertised this as a "contemporary love story." That part amused me, as the book was written in 1957 and set in that post-WWII period. Other than the specific details, such as characters who had been part of the French Resistance, the story very much reflects modern life and love. Like many of L'Engle's previous books, the characters wrestle with the gray areas of life, love, religion and the like, examining issues that many readers also struggle with to one...more
Classic L'Engle. Vivid characters, real life situations. A keeper.
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Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer best known for her Young Adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Many Waters. Her works reflect her strong interest in modern science: tesseracts, for example, are featured prominently in A Wrinkle in Time, mitochondrial DNA in A Wind in the Door, organ regener...more
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