A rich cornucopia of Joanne Greenberg's recent shorter prose, including a brilliant futuristic novella and a dozen of her best short stories. The title novella deals with time travel and reliving one's life, the results of which are both moving and tragic. All of the dozen stories are small gems, each very different from the others in subject and setting.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
At least four of the 14 stories in Greenberg's collection deserve to be classics. Writing in a futuristic vein, the author invests the title story with universal resonance. When a woman on a planet where fear and repression are endemic applies for a time-travel pass to her past life on earth, she falls in love with a man who does not know her identity and unwittingly becomes the agent of tragedy. Here, as throughout the collection--in "Elizabeth Baird," about a gentle woman whose slight cerebral lesion causes behavior that sets her apart; "Stand Still, Ute River," a quiet tale about the casting out of sins that ends with a provocative twist; and the wry "Retrieval," in which an elderly heroine repeatedly witnesses to scenes of violence--Greenberg's stories are ironically nuanced, tough in their implications but tender in their sympathy for the human condition. Though many of these tales are set in Colorado, some add a dimension of magical realism. In two darkly humorous stories characters come alive to the writers who created them. "Like a Native" draws on Greenberg's special knowledge of Sign language and the world of the deaf and dumb. Although she sometimes over-reaches for effect, at their best Greenberg's stories have emotional depth and compassion, psychological acuity and the implication of moral consequences.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
YA-- An ideal collection of short stories for adolescents. Greenberg's narrative style is straightforward and fast moving; each selection covers a lot of ground but also has an unusual angle or plot twist. It should come as no surprise that Greenberg, author of that teenage favorite, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (NAL, 1989), emphasizes psychological motives here. Beginning with the title piece, a sci/fi tale about a woman with a unique double life, the stories take up, one after the other, questions of personal identity and human relationships. YA readers are sure to find this collection easy to read and intensely thought provoking. --Marya Andreen, R. E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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