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Cargando... The Choirpor Joanna Trollope
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I used to like J. Trollope's books and was glad to have found this one, but it bored me just enough to stop reading after some 50 odd pages. Here are two quotes I liked, they are of that dry, entertaining author's voice I like: P. 23: ...but, that was one of the penalties of growing older, that you stopped accepting things and started judging them. P. 25: Being grateful is exhausting work. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"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." No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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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. ( )