The Joys of Love
L'Engle, Madeleine
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
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. Shes never felt so alive. And soon she finds another passion: Kurt Canitz, the dashing young director of the company, and the first man Elizabeths ever kissed who has really meant something to her. Then Elizabeths 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 authors granddaughter Léna Roy, the protagonist Elizabeth is close to an autobiographical portrait of LEngle herself as a young womanvibrant, vulnerable, and yearning for love and all that life has to offer.
AUTHOR BIO
MADELEINE LENGLE (19182007) was the author of many books for children and adults. She was perhaps best known for the Time Quintet, especially A Wrinkle in Time, which won a Newbery Medal, and her books featuring the Austin family, including the Newbery Honor Book A Ring of Endless Light.
BOOK EXCERPTS
From The Joys of Love
On the warm summer nights after the curtain had come down on the evenings performance, the actors would hurry out of costume and makeup and stroll down the boardwalk, stopping for ice cream or Cokes, or drifting into town where there were restaurants and nightclubs. The apprentices, who served as ushers, would walk along in their bright summer evening clothes, and in the ice cream parlors would talk loudly of the evenings performance and of the problems of acting, so that everybody would know that they belonged to the theatre.
Sometimes, if Elizabeth had received a tip, she would go with the other apprentices; sometimes she would walk into town to a midnight movie with Ben Walton, the assistant stage manager, who was also an apprentice actor; but usually she stayed backstage, doing odd jobs for any of the professional actors who needed anything, waiting for a word or a gesture from Kurt Canitz.
Kurt Canitz was the director at the theatre, but occasionally he would take a role that appealed to him and then he would have Elizabeth cue him. When he grew tired of that, he would say, Im sick of working. Come and talk with me, Elizabeth. And then he would take her to the restaurant in his hotel, the Ambassador, and talk to her for hours about the theatre, about the productions he had directed on Broadway, about Elizabeths own talent as an actress.
I have never lived before, Elizabeth thought. Until this summer I did not know what it was to be alive.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0374338701
ISBN(13-digit): 9780374338701
Dewey Decimal: [Fic]
Library of Congress: 2007014331
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 255
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