Polly's visit to her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious stangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
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Polly's visit to her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious stangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. Book First edition (stated), first printing, hardcover. 343 pages. Near fine with foxing to edges of text block, in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Mylar cover on jacket. NOT ex-library. NOT a remainder.
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Very Good in Fine jacket. Book First edition, first printing, hardcover. 343 pages. Red cloth with silver letters on spine. Very good with head of spine bumped and light foxing to edges of text block, in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Mylar cover on jacket.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book First edition, hardcover. 343 pages. Red cloth with silver letters on spine. Very good with tail of spine bumped and five small punctures to spine, in a very good dust jacket with light edge wear and small punctures to spine. Mylar cover on jacket.
"An Acceptable Time" is the final installment in Madeleine L'Engle's beloved Time Quintet, and it is rather different in tone from the previous books. The plot centers around Polly, Meg and Calvin's daughter, as she visits her Murry grandparents in New England. Somehow time circles nearby have been opened, allowing Polly to cross over into prehistoric times.
Whereas the threats of the previous books came from without the Murry circle of friends and family, in this story Polly is put in considerable danger by a friend, and then the challenge becomes whether to do the right thing and help the person who selfishly harmed you, or leave them to suffer the consequences of their own bad decisions.
I liked this book, despite the fact that it is very different from the adventures of the previous generation. The tone is just a little more downcast, as it revolves around human sacrifice and betrayal, and Alex and Kate Murry have grown less open-minded in their older age, refusing at first to believe that Polly has truly time-traveled. That was slightly hard to swallow considering all they had seen (Alex Murry having himself tessered in the first book).
But the writing was still captivating, and I very much wanted to find out what happened in the course of the novel (even though I've read it before) so I would still recommend the book.