- Juvenile fiction, Interpersonal relations, Friendship, Fiction
Sixteen-year-old Polly is on her way to the island of Cyprus, where she will work as a gofer. The trip was arranged by Maximiliana Horne, a rich, brilliant artist who, with her longtime companion, Dr.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Madeleine L'Engle
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 307
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Square Fish, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780808566175
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