In A Joyful Noise, Deborah Weisgall tells a moving story of her turbulent coming-of-age in the shadow of two remarkable men who lived life as if they were characters in an opera. The daughter of a mercurial composer and the granddaughter of a legendary cantor, Deborah as a child longs to be entrusted with their precious music and carry it on herself. But it is impossible; she is a girl.
A Joyful Noise recounts Deborah's search for a place within the family tradition and, finally, her triumphant discovery of a way to make the men who would exclude her -- who are also the men she loves --...
In A Joyful Noise, Deborah Weisgall tells a moving story of her turbulent coming-of-age in the shadow of two remarkable men who lived life as if they ...
A stunning novel about two women and two marriages--George Eliot at the end of her life, and another by a remarkably similar woman a century later--that confronts the eternal dilemma of how to find love and sustain it, without losing one's self and personal ambition in the process.
A stunning novel about two women and two marriages--George Eliot at the end of her life, and another by a remarkably similar woman a century later--th...
