Word: evensong
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...host of the first National Book Festival, this weekend, the First Lady will oversee an all-day affair on the Capitol lawn with readings, music, food and lessons on bookbinding. Whom has Bush picked as opening acts for this bookfest? John Adams biographer David McCullough, novelist Gail Godwin (Evensong), playwright Larry L. King (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas), short-story writer J. California Cooper, historian John Hope Franklin and TV anchor Tom Brokaw (The Greatest Generation). Brokaw, for one, practices reading out loud...
July 22-29: The 14th International Thomas Hardy Conference; in Dorchester, England. The program promises readings, lectures, evensong and nice long walks...
Gail Godwin's 10th novel, Evensong (Ballantine; 405 pages; $25), is set in the very near future indeed, specifically the waning weeks of 1999. Millennial fever has reached even the idyllic and remote Smoky Mountain town of High Balsam, N.C. (winter pop. 1,000), where Margaret Bonner, 33, serves as rector of All Saints Episcopal Church. "Winter in the Great Smokies would shortly be upon us," Margaret says at the outset of her tale, "the winter that would see us into the next century and the new millennium. Other things were on their way to us as well, things...
...undercutting or exposing her heroine-narrator. The author has accomplished something more difficult than ridicule; she has created a character who has enough flaws to satisfy contemporary skeptics but who also struggles convincingly with the old-fashioned task of being a good person. For all its leisurely pace, Evensong turns out, near the end, to have wasted few words. It concludes with an Epilogue, set further in the future than its opening chapter, that not only ties up loose ends but also dares to be, in these uncertain times, optimistic...
...service will feature the premiere of an evensong composition entitled "The Harvard Service," performed by the University Choir and a sermon by Lord Runcie of Cuddesdon, former Archbishop of Canterbury...