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"A L'Engle Take on Noah and the Ark"
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Jul 3, 2010
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a good complement to the Wrinkle in Time series
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As is her wont, Madeleine L'Engle plunges you head first into her story in Many Waters, her fourth book about the Murry family. This time it is the twins, Sandy and Dennys, who have their chance to shine in a mesmerizing re-telling of Noah and the Ark. L'Engle skillfully manages to weave Biblical beings like seraphim and unicorns in with mythical beings such as griffins and an extinct one, the mammoth. She employs all of her imaginative talents to populate a pre-flood world, but still … more
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Interesting adaptation of a Biblical story.
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I loved a Wrinkle in Time, but slowly L'engle disappointed me more and more. It was sad.
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A graduate student of biological anthropology. My favorite writers are Peter Straub, Alice Hoffmann, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and E.O. Wilson … more
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Table of Contents:
Virtual particles and virtual unicorns -- Pelican in the wilderness -- Japheth's sister Yalith -- Grandfather Lamech and Grandfather Enoch -- Nephilim -- Adnarel and the quantum leap -- Seraphim -- Oholibamah, Japheth's wife -- Mahlah's time, Lamech's time -- Song of the stars -- Many waters cannot quench love -- Neither can the floods drown it.
Series:
Time Quintet, 4
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Virtual particles and virtual unicorns -- Pelican in the wilderness -- Japheth's sister Yalith -- Grandfather Lamech and Grandfather Enoch -- Nephilim -- Adnarel and the quantum leap -- Seraphim -- Oholibamah, Japheth's wife -- Mahlah's time, Lamech's time -- Song of the stars -- Many waters cannot quench love -- Neither can the floods drown it.
Series:
Time Quintet, 4
ISBN-10:
0312368577 (pbk.)
ISBN-13:
9780312368579 (pbk.)
Author:
Madeleine L'Engle
Genre:
Young Adult Fiction,
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Publisher:
Square Fish
Date Published:
1986
Format:
Novel
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