The Door Into Sunset [Paperback]

Diane Duane (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Tor Books (1993)
• ASIN: B000OTLKUQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,993,661 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Diane Duane was born in New York City -- a descendant of New York's first mayor -- and worked there as a psychiatric nurse before leaving the profession for the only one she loved better, the business of writing. Since the publication of her first novel in 1981, she's written fifty more, not to mention numerous short stories, comics, computer games and screenplays for TV and film, and has picked up the occasional award here and there. (She has also worked with Star Trek in more media than anyone else alive.)

Right now she's probably best known for her "Young Wizards" series of young adult fantasy novels, featuring the New York-based wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan -- in business for twenty-five years now, their most recent adventure being described in the ninth YW novel, "A Wizard of Mars" (just released in paperback).

DD shares a two hundred-year-old cottage in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland with her husband, the Belfast-born novelist and screenwriter Peter Morwood, a laid-back white cat named Goodman, and various overworked computers... an odd but congenial environment for the staging of epic battles between good and evil and the leisurely pursuit of total galactic domination. (And a lot of ethnic cooking: her own favorite foods come from the cuisines of central Europe and the Mediterranean.) In her spare time she gardens (weeding, mostly), studies German and Italian, listens to shortwave and satellite radio, and dabbles in astronomy, computer graphics, iaido, amateur cartography, and desktop publishing ... while also trying to figure out how to make more spare time.

Her favorite color is blue, her favorite food is a weird kind of Swiss scrambled-potato dish called maluns, she was born in a Year of the Dragon, and her sign is "Runway 24 Left, Hold For Clearance."

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Door into Sunset was definitely worth the wait!, March 13, 1999

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This review is from: The Door into Sunset (The Tale of the Five, Vol 3) (Paperback)

If you haven't read the first two "Door" books, make every effort to find and read them before reading this one. Although each can be read alone, you will have much fuller appreciation if you start at the beginning. It was worth waiting almost ten years for "Sunset". This series is my all time favorite! I hope at some point they will all be in print again. As usual, in Door Into Sunset, Diane weaves an inticate mythological tale, steeped in the knowledge that risking what our heart requires of us can bring pain but also transformation. She is a master storyteller with a delightfully devious mind. One of the things I most appreciate about this series is a worldview that is open to many variations of relationships. There is great joy as well as terror in this book, and I'm glad that joy wins out. After the way this ends, I'm anxious to see what further adventures are in store for Freelorn's band. Could we please have "Door into Starlight" before 2004?

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Third in the series, and best yet!, November 18, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: The Door into Sunset (The Tale of the Five, Vol 3) (Paperback)

Continuing the tale of Freelorn & friends' battle against the
Shadow, this book has a consistently riveting storyline, and
is one of Diane Duane's best works. A must-read that is alternately
exciting and insightful, and a rousingly good story besides.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Door into Sunset, April 17, 2010

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This review is from: The Door into Sunset (The Tale of the Five, Vol 3) (Paperback)

This, the conclusion of The Tale of Five (or is it??) brings the fate of the dragons full circle. One is left wondering whatever happened to The Door into Starlight? A tale left unfinished is a sad thing.....