A Live Coal in the Sea - Softcover

L'Engle, Madeleine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060652861 ISBN 13: 9780060652869

Publisher: Harperone, 1997

Synopsis

Madeleine L'Engle's first adult novel in four years -- now in paperback! With 23,000 copies sold since May 1996, this "haunting domestic drama" "(Publishers Weekly)" examines the powers of faith and mercy in one family's confrontation with a legacy of evil.

Best known for "A Wrinkle in Time --" the children's classic that has sold more than 2 million copies since 1962 -- Madeleine L'Engle is as adept at exploring faith and human experience as she is at spinning fascinating, fantastic tales. Now this masterful storyteller blends her two passions and offers an engrossing new story to delight her devoted audience.

When Dr. Camilla Dickinson's teenage granddaughter confronts her with the disquieting question of whether Camilla is, in fact, her grandmother, long-kept secrets rise to the surface to test the faith, love and loyalty of the Xanthakos family. This skillful, gripping tale shuttles between past and troubled present, providing clues to a multigenerational mystery -- clues that begin to focus on Camilla's son, the deeply troubled TV idol Artaxias, and on Camilla's mother, the irresistibly beautiful and adulterous Rose. Though riveting and psychologically complex, "A Live Coal in the Sea" is "infused with the warmth of love and mercy" "(Booklist), " showcasing the keen eye and deep compassion that have made L'Engle one of this century's premier writers on faith and its place in human experience.

Madeleine L'Engle is the author of more than 40 fiction and nonfiction titles. She lives in New York City.

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Review:

"A complex, modern saga....infused with the warmth of love and mercy."--"Booklist"

About the Author:

Madeleine L’Engle (1918–2007) was an American author of more than sixty books, including novels for children and adults, poetry, and religious meditations. Her best-known work, A Wrinkle in Time, one of the most beloved young adult books of the twentieth century and a Newbery Medal winner, has sold more than fourteen million copies since its publication in 1962. Her other novels include A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and A Ring of Endless Light. Born in New York City, L’Engle graduated from Smith College and worked in theater, where she met her husband, actor Hugh Franklin. L’Engle documented her marriage and family life in the four-book autobiographical series, the Crosswicks Journals. She also served as librarian and writer-in-residence at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan for more than thirty years.
 

About this edition

• Publisher: Harperone
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0060652861
• ISBN 13: 9780060652869
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1