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Certain WomenMadeleine L'Engle

Certain Women

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Emma Wheaton has interrupted her successful stage career to attend to her dying father—the legedary screen actor David Wheaton. As the master performer grapples with an obsession over the one great role that has eluded him—that of the biblical King David—Emma confronts both the painful and healing memories of her tumultuous past. The stories of these two Davids and the women in their lives are simultaneously woven together and unraveled in a narrative rich in theatrical tradition and archetypal wisdom. In Certain Women, Madeleine L’Engle gives us an unforgettable portrait of the private…

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5 editions
  • Other · English · 2018
    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 308 pages · 9781504049467
  • Other · English · 2018
    Brilliance Audio · 9781543629811
  • Other · English · 2017
    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 352 pages · 9781504041591
  • Other · English · 1993
    HarperSanFrancisco · 351 pages · 9780060652074
  • Other · English · 1992
    Farrar, Straus, Giroux · 351 pages · 9780374120252
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