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Chargement... The Choirpar Trollope. Joanna
Information sur l'oeuvreJeu d'orgue par Joanna Trollope
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 3-1/2 stars. Took awhile to get into all the characters, but quite a satisfying read. ( ) The boys’ choir in a cathedral town is in danger of being abandoned because of a lack of funds as well as the immediate necessity of the cathedral needing a ne roof. The Deacon is determined to use the money the choir costs toward the cathedral’s physical repairs. However, a significant number of the townspeople want the choir to stay – notably the Deacon’s daughter who fancies herself in love with the choirmaster. She organizes a fun raising scheme to save the choir that is quite successful. The choirmaster, however, is in love with the married mother of his lead chorister, so trouble is ahead. A lot of this book seems very old fashioned when one considers how unreligious Britain is today, and the reader really needs to suspend a sense of reality in order to keep some of the handwringing and soul searching from turning into the ridiculous. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"In the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral, crisis loomed. The urbane and worldly Dean (Purdey guns and the regular arrival of a delivery van from Berry Brothers) wanted nothing so much as to restore and beautify his beloved Cathedral - even if it meant sacrificing the Choir School to pay for it. Alexander Troy, Headmaster of the school, a conscientious man, somewhat out of his depth with his elusive and poetical wife (once seen walking barefoot in the dew across the Cathedral Close) was determined that nothing and no-one - certainly not the overbearing Dean - should destroy the Choir. As the rift widened into machiavellian dimensions, many others found themselves caught in the schism - Leo Beckford, brilliant but wayward organist, repelling the adoration of the Dean's dreadful daughter - the gentle, left-wing Bishop, trying to soothe the angry protagonists - Sally Ashworth, mother of the leading chorister, fighting loneliness and an erring and absent husband. Each frail and human dilemma took its part in the greater turmoil of Chapter and Close and the final battle for the survival of the Choir." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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