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GREGORY MAGUIRE

[The Far Side of Victory is dramatic] and engaging from the start…. [The] writing is clear and worth savoring. The development of a strange but powerful romance between Eric and Helen, the eventual break with their former lives, and their professional establishment in a community small enough to need them and large enough to give them room to heal are all described with patience and restraint…. Mysterious and suspenseful but rewarding in its characterization and its analysis of small-town politics and society, the book provides a subtle and complex treatment of love and growth. (p. 740)

Gregory Maguire, in a review of "The Far Side of Victory," in The Horn Book Magazine, Vol. LIX, No. 6, December, 1983, pp. 739-41.

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