A novel about the darker side of love by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time and the Crosswicks Journals. From the moment Henry Porcher first sees Ilsa Brandes, he worships her. Despite controversy surrounding the young girl, Henry is drawn to her, a fascination that turns into a lifelong infatuation. As the years pass, Ilsa's memory never leaves him, not until the day he returns to their sleepy Southern hometown and renews their childhood friendship. Henry watches as she becomes a wife, then a mother, then a ... Read More
A novel about the darker side of love by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time and the Crosswicks Journals. From the moment Henry Porcher first sees Ilsa Brandes, he worships her. Despite controversy surrounding the young girl, Henry is drawn to her, a fascination that turns into a lifelong infatuation. As the years pass, Ilsa's memory never leaves him, not until the day he returns to their sleepy Southern hometown and renews their childhood friendship. Henry watches as she becomes a wife, then a mother, then a widow, irrevocably changed by tragedy. This rare and sought-after novel is a portrait of a remarkable woman bound by both the stifling conventions of her time and place, and her own sense of honor and purpose. A departure from L'Engle's later works, Ilsa is a dark, intriguing novel about passion, fixation, and the real price of unrequited love by an author renowned for her children's classics as well as her candid personal memoirs. Read Less
Add this copy of Ilsa to cart. $176.24, very good condition, Sold by crealivres rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from val couesnon, N/A, FRANCE, published 1947 by De la paix.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. [x], 416 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with spine stamped in silver. Near Fine with trivial foxing to cloth, offsetting to endsheets. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine and top edges, light wear to spine ends and a faint stain at the foot. A fantastic copy of the Newbery Medal award-winning author's second darker themed novel; uncommon in such nice condition.
