Severed Wasp, A
by L'Engle, Madeleine
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Synopsis
A Severed Wasp, is a novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It continues the story of a pianist, Katherine Forrester, who was first seen in The Small Rain. Now a widow in her seventies, Katherine Forrester Vigneras returns to New York City in retirement from concert touring in Europe. There she encounters Felix Bodeway, an old friend from her Greenwich Village days, who is now the retired Episcopal Bishop of New York. He asks Katherine to give a benefit concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
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- Bookseller
- Pistil Books Online (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 143428
- Title
- Severed Wasp, A
- Author
- L'Engle, Madeleine
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Date Published
- 1982
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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