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From: Maia Cheli-Colando <maia>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:26:43 -0700
I re(re-re)read Virginia Euwer Wolff's The Mozart Season tonight. Allegra's struggle with edging nearer to Mozart had stuck with me, but I had forgotten the beauty of the passage when Allegra gives voice to the Jewish goose girl her great-grandmother, and her namesake, was before the Holocaust. So I'd like to offer this too as a suggestion for the list; its treatment of the Holocaust is very subtle, but intimate and true, as is her marriage of Jew and Gentile within Allegra's spirit.
Maia
Received on Thu 27 Apr 2006 12:26:43 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:26:43 -0700
I re(re-re)read Virginia Euwer Wolff's The Mozart Season tonight. Allegra's struggle with edging nearer to Mozart had stuck with me, but I had forgotten the beauty of the passage when Allegra gives voice to the Jewish goose girl her great-grandmother, and her namesake, was before the Holocaust. So I'd like to offer this too as a suggestion for the list; its treatment of the Holocaust is very subtle, but intimate and true, as is her marriage of Jew and Gentile within Allegra's spirit.
Maia
Received on Thu 27 Apr 2006 12:26:43 AM CDT
