An Acceptable Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet)

L'Engle, Madeleine

ISBN 10: 0374300275 / ISBN 13: 9780374300272

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York, 1989

About this Item

Stated first edition, 1989. Red cloth over boards, in very good condition. Unclipped dust jacket is covered in removable mylar and has some light fading to spine, otherwise in very good condition, clean and bright. Binding tight and text clean.

Seller Inventory # 4433677

Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Acceptable Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374300275
• ISBN 13: 9780374300272
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

A flash of lightning, quivering ground, and, instead of her grandparents' farm, Polly sees mist and jagged mountains -- and coming toward her, a group of young men carrying spears.

Why has a time gate opened and dropped Polly into a world that existed 3,000 years ago? Will she be able to get back to the present before the time gate closes -- and leaves her to face a group of people who believe in human sacrifice?

Reviews

For this time-slip novel, L'Engle again reaches into her bag of weird and wonderful knowledge, blending snippets of tantalizing information from a variety of disciplines--history, natural history, physics and Christian metaphysics, to name a few--into a rich and heady brew. Red-haired Polly O'Keefe (last seen in A House Like a Lotus ) arrives at her grandparents' farm in Connecticut for some private tutoring. There, in a landscape familiar to L'Engle fans (who will be pleased to know that the Nobel Prize-winning Mrs. Murry still cooks over a Bunsen burner), Polly slips back 3000 years into a different time "spiral." She meets Anaral, a Native American girl; Karralys, a druid banished from Britain for his progressive thinking; and Tav, a handsome warrior who accompanied the druid to their new land. Polly travels back and forth between the two worlds, and eventually her purpose becomes clear: with the aid of her new friends she forges peace between two clashing tribes, and helps Zachary Gray (also from A House Like a Lotus ), a self-centered but very ill young man. The story is laced together with L'Engle's now-familiar theme of the transcendent importance of love. This fine fantasy, firmly rooted in reality, is the kind of thoughtful story at which L'Engle excels. Ages 12-up.
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