num_pages: 384
description: Madeleine L'Engle's classic young adult books include A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Certain Women. The Small Rain, an adult novel, focuses on Katherine Forrester, the daughter of distinguished musical artists, whose career as a concert pianist evolves through loves and losses. Katherine is a child growing up in a refined, yet bohemian, artistic ambience--theatrical as well as musical . . . . [Her] adolescence is lonely and difficult, but as Katherine advances to young womanhood, her heart as well as her talent is promisingly engaged (Publishers Weekly).
language: English
title: The Small Rain
titlecomplete: The Small Rain
characters: Katherine Forrester Vigneras
genres: American, Classics, Music, Adult, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 3193
series: Katherine Forrester Vigneras
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux