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What is Certain Women about?

Emma Wheaton Has Interrupted Her Successful Stage Career To Attend Her Dying Father, David Wheaton. The Legendary Actor Is Obsessed With An Unfinished Play About The Old Testament King David Written By Emma's Estranged Husband. As His Family - Itself Of Biblical Proportions, Because David Wheaton Has Had Nine Wives And Eleven Children - Gathers, The Stories Of Both Davids And Their Women Are Simultaneously Woven Together And Unraveled. For Emma, Being With Her Extended Family Brings Back Memories Both Painful And Healing, And Confronting Her Own Tumultuous Past Helps Her Understand The Effect Her Father's Life Has Had On Them All. As David Wheaton Faces His Approaching Death, Emma Grapples With Her Future. Steeped In The Modern World Of The Theater And The Ancient World Of Prophets And Kings, Madeleine L'engle's Latest Novel Examines The Lot Of Mothers And Wives And Daughters. Certain Women Shows Her Intimate Knowledge Of Theatrical Life, Resolves A Long-held Fascination With King David, And Continues Her Exploration Of Biblical Matters. Madeleine L'engle.

Who reads Certain Women?

Author

L'Engle, Madeleine

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374120252

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Religion

Rating

3.72 / 5 (34 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14