TwoPart Invention, Madeleine LEngle
TwoPart Invention, Madeleine LEngle
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Two-Part Invention
The Story of a Marriage

Author: Madeleine L'Engle

Narrator: Pamela Almand

Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 01/23/2018


Synopsis

In the final memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, the author of A Wrinkle in Time paints an intimate portrait of her forty-year marriage.A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship.As Newbery Medal winner Madeleine L’Engle describes a relationship characterized by compassion, respect, and growth, as well as challenge and conflict, she beautifully evokes the life she and her husband, actor Hugh Franklin, built and the family they cherished.Beginning with their very different childhoods, L’Engle chronicles the twists and turns that led two young artists to New York City in the 1940s, where they were both pursuing careers in theater. While working on a production of Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard, they sparked a connection that would endure until Franklin’s death in 1986. L’Engle recalls years spent raising their children at Crosswicks, the Connecticut farmhouse that became an icon of family, and the support she and her husband drew from each other as artists struggling—separately and together—to find both professional and personal fulfillment.At once heartfelt and heartbreaking, Two-Part Invention is L’Engle’s most personal work—the revelation of a marriage and the exploration of intertwined lives inevitably marked by love and loss.

About Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L’Engle, the popular author of many books for children and adults, interspersed her writing and teaching career with raising three children, maintaining an apartment in New York and a farmhouse of charming confusion which is called “Crosswicks.”


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cindy

This is the last of L'Engle's Crosswick Journals and it is both a fascinating and very sad look at her marriage (and his death) to Hugh Franklin. As I said with her book The Summer of the Great Grandmother, timing is everything. This book also helped me think of my own father's illness in light of h......more

Goodreads review by steph

This memoir is amazing. She wrote this beautiful autobiography of her life and 40 year marriage to Hugh Franklin the summer he was dying of cancer. Her strength, family, faith and writing were all just perfect here and I enjoyed reading about the life she and her husband built together. There is a v......more

Goodreads review by Madelyn

I was absolutely captivated by part I (like 5/5 stars // "one of my favorites" type of captivated), but as part II went on, I was less captivated because at times, it was quite "cheesy" if you will :/ nevertheless!!! some quotes!! "most of the southern boys who went to those dances were considerably......more