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Title: A Live Coal In The Sea by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0-06-065286-1 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 21 May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thought provoking read...
Comment: After reading Madeleine L'Engle's Camilla, I just had to find out what had become of her. A Live Coal in the Sea introduces new characters and reunites us with old friends. Written in the style of A House Like a Lotus, with flashbacks every few pages, the reader will never be confused about the time. The main character is Camilla Dickinson, who is happy until her granddaughter, Raffi, comes to her home asking "Are you or aren't you my grandmother?" Camilla is forced to deal with something that happened long ago. So she tells the story of her life, beginning at her senior year of college, when she met her husband which all lead up to the discovery of Raffi's father Taxi's parentage. There is a surprise twist at the end of the book. Ms. L'Engle deals with complicated issues in a subtle way. This book should be read by more mature readers, but everyone will learn something from it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lessons on Mercy
Comment: One of my favorite things about Madeleine L'Engle's work is that she shares her own life with her readers. At first glance a fictional story dealing with four generations working through their own dysfunction and pain to find healing and mercy, and perhaps even a sort of peace, would not seem to have a lot of similarity to L'Engle's own life, or at least one would hope not. The similarities I find are subtler. L'Engle is Episcopalian. Her main character's husband works in an Episcopalian church. L'Engle's husband Hugh was an actor who played on a soap opera for many years, as is Taxi Xanthakos, another character from the book. As she shares pieces of herself in numerous details such as these, L'Engle adds authenticity to her tale.
The story itself takes many unexpected twists and turns as it progresses. These twists and turns, along with L'Engle's attention to detail that I mentioned earlier, invite the reader to not just take the story at face value, but to read it for the broader underlying theme-mercy. Each of her characters must give and receive mercy at one time or another, some more than others. Although I have had none of the experiences of the characters in this book, I found myself able to identify with their plight as they struggled with mercy and forgiveness. The plot of the story so drew me in though that I was about halfway through the book before I really understood why I was identifying with them. We all need to give and receive mercy countless times throughout our lives.
Rating: 5
Summary: Mercy in an unmerciful world
Comment: Oh that more people in our world had read this sweet and poingant story! This is perhaps one of the most telling tales of humanity that I have ever read, and has remained hopeful for our possibilities. L'Engle has told a story of Grace, like in the parable of the vinyard workers, which is radical and even offensive to our natrual inclinations, yet hopeful that we might find grace and mercy for ourselves and those who hurt us.
Read it, and hear it. If you listen closely you might hear the Christ telling his Gospel of peace, mercy, faith and hope.
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Title: A Severed Wasp : A Novel by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0374517835 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1983 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Small Rain : A Novel by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0374519129 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1985 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Camilla by MADELEINE L'ENGLE ISBN: 0440911710 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 November, 1982 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle ISBN: 0440208149 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Young Unicorns by MADELEINE L'ENGLE ISBN: 0440999197 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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