The Washington Post, March 28th, 1999
EVENSONG By Gail Godwin Ballantine. 416 pp. $25 Reviewed by Brigitte Weeks Theology and fiction are a tough mixture, but Gail Godwin is a talented and courageous novelist who has sought drama before in the quintessentially middle-class, middle-of-the-road world of the Episcopal Church. Perhaps she knows that 89 percent of all Americans claim to pray, even if most frequently for victory in a sports event. The Rev. Walter Gower, hero of her 1991 novel, Father Melancholy's Daughter, was in the habit of commenting that his mission wasn't "to comfort the afflicted but to afflict the comfortable." A...
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