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White Time
By Lanagan, Margo
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06074-393-2 978-0-06074-394-9
- Publisher
- Eos HarperCollins
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2006
Gr 8-Up This esoteric short-story collection celebrates creative and expressive literature in a big, broad way. Lanagans themes range from reckoning to healing, and her conflicts tackle eating disorders, terrorists, and self-empowerment. One heartening story, Big Rage, is a modern-day social take on Beauty and the Beast. At once romantic and tragic, filled with rough-and-tumble jousting scenes, it is...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2006
Ten more compelling stories from the author of the much-lauded Black Juice (rev. 5/05). Typically, Lanagan plunges into action in a deceptively commonplace milieu; otherworldly details and surreal scenarios quickly emerge, however. In "Wealth," a chilling dystopian satire, the chief value of the ruling Leets lies in their voluminous hair, artificially augmented by the impoverished Ords; enlisted in a rebel action, a young Ord find ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
