"A first-rate suspense story, complete with missing formulae, Oriental scientists, unnecessary brain operations, cryptic telegrams and an unforgettable scene in which a bishop sits enthroned in jeweled splendor in a dank, abandoned subway station issuing orders to a street gang." --"The Washington Post Book World"
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"A first-rate suspense story, complete with missing formulae, Oriental scientists, unnecessary brain operations, cryptic telegrams and an unforgettable scene in which a bishop sits enthroned in jeweled splendor in a dank, abandoned subway station issuing orders to a street gang." --"The Washington Post Book World"
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Like New. Size: 6x1x9; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. "Madeleine L'Engle was an author whose childhood fables, religious meditations and fanciful science fiction transcended both genre and generation, most memorably in her children's classic A Wrinkle in Time. A Wrinkle in Time was rejected by 26 publishers before editors at Farrar, Straus & Giroux read it and enthusiastically accepted it. It proved to be her masterpiece, winning the John Newbery Medal as the best children's book of 1963 and selling, so far, eight million copies. Her works included poetry, plays, autobiography and books on prayer, and almost all were deeply, quixotically personal. But it was in her vivid children's characters that readers most clearly glimpsed her passionate search for answers to the questions that mattered most. She sometimes spoke of her writing as if she were taking dictation from her subconscious."-NY Times Obit.
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Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1968. 245 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Ellen Raskin DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Austins are trying to settle into their new life in New York City, but their once close-knit family is pulling away from each other. Their father spends long hours alone in his study working on the research project that brought the family to the city. John is away at college. Rob is making friends with people in the neighborhood: newspaper vendors, dog walkers, even the local rabbi. Suzy is blossoming into a vivacious young woman. And Vicky has become closer to Emily Gregory, a blind and brilliant young musician, than to her sister Suzy. With the Austins going in different directions, they don't notice that something sinister is going on in their neighborhood—and it's centered around them. A mysterious genie appears before Rob and Emily. A stranger approaches Vicky in the park and calls her by name. Members of a local gang are following their father. The entire Austin family is in danger. If they don't start telling each other what's going on, someone just might get killed. EB; 8.6 X 6.0 X 0.9 inches; 256 pages; Signed by Author.
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This is an excellent continuation of Madeleine L'Engles' series. I bought this to replace my paperback copy and to add to my hardcover set. If you enjoy a family based series, read the entire Austin family series. If you really enjoy it, puchase hardcover copies for your own library!
Cricket49
May 31, 2007
Excellent reading
Great story line, you could almost use it in today's society. Valuable teaching for younger teens today of what to do and not what to do in times of crisis.