Evensong (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Gail Godwin
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: November-December, 1999, with an epilogue in 2020
- Setting: High Balsam, North Carolina, a fictional mountain town about fifteen miles up the mountains from Asheville, here called Mountain City
- Principal Characters: Margaret Gower Bonner, Adrian Bonner, Ben Macgruder, Joseph Anthony “Brother Tony” Bonner, Chase Zorn, Augusta “Gus” Eubanks, Charles Tye, Jennifer Tye, Grace Munger
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Marriage, Twenty-first century, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, North Carolina, Depression, mental, 1990’s, AIDS, Episcopal church
- Locales: High Balsam, NC
Evensong is a deeply moving exploration of issues confronting a woman who is trying as best she can to live according to God’s will as she understands it. At the same time it is a love story, an account of a spiritual quest, and a fascinating look at morals and mores at the beginning of the millennium. Margaret Bonner loves her husband, believes in her work, and desires to serve her church and its congregation to the best of her abilities. In this novel she narrates the story of the final two months of 1999 for the edification of the child conceived during this highly charged...
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