- Weather, Magic, storms, Fiction
When Anthony Monday and Miss Eells find J. K. Borkman's diary, they think it contains the ravings of a lunatic. But soon violent hailstorms and blizzards rage across the land, and they must accept the frightening words: Borkman's son, carrying on his father's work, intends to turn into an icy wasteland.
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Classical in form, resolved, unpretentious and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- John Bellairs
- First published
- February 1, 1986
- Pages
- 182
- Publisher
- Dial Books for Young Readers, Puffin, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780553156218
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<b><a href="http://bellairsia.com">John Bellairs</a></b> (1938–1991) was an American novelist working primarily in the Gothic genre. He is best-known for the children's classic <i>The House with a Clock in its Walls</i> 1973) and for the pathbreaking fantasy novel <i>The Face in the Frost</i> (1969). Bellairs held a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame University and a master's in English from the University of Chicago. He combined writing and teaching from 1963 to 1971, including a year at <a href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College</a> that coincided with that school's storied <a href="http://www.bellairsia.com/the_life/il/gis.html">Grotesque Internecine Struggle</a>. After 1971, he took up wr
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