Book of Hours by M Owen Lee

Book of Hours by M Owen Lee

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Recreating a year Father Lee spent teaching at an American college campus in Rome, this work is set in the context of a personal crisis - impending hearing loss, theological doubts, and the celibate's regret that he cannot share his remaining years with children of his own. It shows how religious faith and humanistic culture need never be enemies.

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Book of Hours by M Owen Lee

This is a personal memoir, cast in the form of a secular breviary, that
"'A Book of Hours is a feast, a joy, and an insightful and powerful journey into the inner thoughts of the man himself' Irene Sloan, Founding Editor, The Opera Quarterly 'No one explains more compellingly [than Father Lee] why every human being should care about the stories of the great operas. Who else so convincingly illuminates the links between Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Walt Whitman's poetry; the simple human message underlying Verdi's meandering La Forza del Destino; or the reasons why Wagner's rarely performed Rienzi is his most characteristic work? Readers will come away reassured that opera speaks not just to our visceral passions but also to our deepest spiritual essence.' Commonweal"
M. Owen Lee, a member of the Basilian Fathers, is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto, where he recently received an Outstanding Teacher Award and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
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ISBN 13 9780826418746
ISBN 10 0826418740
Title Book of Hours
Author M Owen Lee
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2006-11-01
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.