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A Book of Hours

A Roman Memoir

by M.Owen Lee

  • Hardback
  • 284 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

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Father Owen Lee is to opera what Chesterton's Father Brown was to crime detection. For 20 years he has been a beloved presence on the Metropolitan Opera's Saturday afternoon Chevron-Texaco broadcasts as an always-knowledgeable guest on Opera Quiz and as an ever-insightful commentator on operatic stories, music and themes. A classics professor in his "day job," Father Lee is the author of 14 books, mostly on opera. A Book of Hours is a departure for Father Lee: a personal memoir, cast in the form of a secular breviary, that recreates a year Father Lee spent teaching at an American college campus in Rome over a quarter century ago. The book draws together in an intricate web of refracting relationships the three great loves of Father Lee's life: opera, literature and his life and work as a priest. A Eurail pass allowed him to visit all the great opera houses of Europe, which in turn reflected on his teaching in the classroom during the week: Homer and Virgil, Whitman and Rilke. And all of this is set in the context of a personal crisis--impending hearing loss, theological doubts and the celibate's inevitable regret, at age forty, that he cannot share his remaining years with children of his own. In this inspiring and beautifully crafted book, Father Lee shows us how religious faith and a deeply humanistic culture need never be enemies, but rather can be a source of mutual enrichment.
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  • Author

    M.Owen Lee

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

  • Published

    June 2004

  • Weight

    550g

  • Page Count

    284

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780826415868

  • ISBN-10

    0826415865

  • Eden Code

    1163959

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