December 9, 2012

Review:The Joys of Love by Madeleine L'Engle, Léna Roy

Summary-
During the summer of 1946, twenty-year-old Elizabeth is doing what she has dreamed of since she was a little girl: working in the theatre. Elizabeth is passionate about her work and determined to learn all she can at the summer theatre company on the sea where she is an apprentice actress. She’s never felt so alive. And soon she finds another passion: Kurt Canitz, the dashing young director of the company, and the first man Elizabeth’s ever kissed who has really meant something to her. Then Elizabeth’s perfect summer is profoundly shaken when Kurt turns out not to be the kind of man she thought he was.
Moving and romantic, this coming-of-age story was written during the 1940s. As revealed in an introduction by the author’s granddaughter Léna Roy, the protagonist Elizabeth is close to an autobiographical portrait of L’Engle herself as a young woman—“vibrant, vulnerable, and yearning for love and all that life has to offer.”
 
Review-
This story seems to add a realistic life to the depths of relationship building, a perfect read for a lover.
 
Publisher- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Reviewers Rating: 4 Stars
Reviewed by~Emma (Student at Franklin High School)
Thank you to the publisher for the donation of this book to the Read for your Future book program!





 

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