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JOHN W. CONNER

A generation of adolescent readers has been charmed by the many writing moods of Madeleine L'Engle; perhaps the sense of togetherness in Meet the Austins, the mystery and suspense of A Wrinkle in Time, or the romantic adventure of And Both Were Young. Miss L'Engle's new novel, The Other Side of the Sun, is an adult one, but older adolescent L'Engle fans will welcome a new facet of this fine author's talent.

Madeleine L'Engle has a very special way with words. She shapes sentences so that the syntax suggests movement and feeling beyond the descriptive power of the words themselves. Never has this been more apparent than in The Other Side of the Sun. (p. 1154)

The Other Side of the Sun moves sedately, revealing little by little the complex familial intrigue which threatens various members of the Illyria family. Slowly Miss L'Engle builds the tension. Finally it is released in an eruption of...

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1. Introduction
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
22. John W. Conner
23. Polly Longsworth
24. John W. Conner
25. MAY HILL ARBUTHNOT and ZENA SUTHERLAND
26. John Rowe Townsend
27. Robert Bell
28. Wayne Dodd
29. Barbara Elleman
30. Cynthia Benjamin
31. Craig Wallace Barrow
32. Rebecca J. Lukens
33. Jean F. Mercier
34. Karen M. Klockner
35. Copyright

1. Madeleine L'Engle