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A Book of Hours - A Roman Memoir (Hardcover)
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A Book of Hours - A Roman Memoir (Hardcover)
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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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