L'Engle: Too Complex for Grown-ups--Salon, 9/07


	L'Engle: Too Complex for Grown-ups--Salon, 9/07

readforpleasure

9-11-2007 12:48 AM

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readforpleasure says:

Isn't that the ultimate sign of mastery: "L'Engle wrote with the complexity of the best adult authors and poets, only she did so in a way that a sixth grader could understand."

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