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ALICE DALGLIESH

The qualities that made A Wrinkle in Time popular are all [in The Arm of the Starfish], though the plot and characters are kept under better control. At first the story seems a cloak-and-dagger affair: it teeters on the edge of melodrama, becomes mystical in tone, and, if you read the note in the front matter, appears also to be science fiction. There is a "message," which is more skilfully presented than that of the former book. The characters are alive and possible—including the Jesus-like Joshua, who proclaims his non-belief in a personal God, yet cares about humanity even to the fall of a sparrow. (p. 45)

Alice Dalgliesh, in Saturday Review (© 1965 by Saturday Review, Inc.; reprinted with permission), April 24, 1965.

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2. Mary Ross
3. Nina Brown Baker
4. Edward Weeks
5. Eunice Holsaert
6. Ellen Lewis Buell
7. Rose Feld
8. Trudie Osborne
9. Harrison Smith
10. Ruth Hill Viguers
11. Alice Dalgliesh
12. Ruth Hill Viguers
13. Carolyn M. Light
14. Alice Dalgliesh
15. Carolyn Horovitz
16. Elaine Moss
17. Jean C. Thomson
18. Paul Heins
19. GERALDINE E. LaROCQUE
20. GERALDINE E. LaROCQUE
21. John Conner
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24. John W. Conner
25. MAY HILL ARBUTHNOT and ZENA SUTHERLAND
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27. Robert Bell
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