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The Boy Who Reversed Himself by William Sleator
The Boy Who Reversed Himself by William Sleator





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The Boy Who Reversed Himself by William Sleator The Boy Who Reversed Himself by William Sleator

Left to right: Monroe, Juniper and Ray Ray. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.The Life and Times of Juniper Lee - Title card. Michael Cart, Beverly Hills Public LibraryĬopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. The sum of all these disparate parts is a novel that is viscerally exciting, mentally stimulating, and deeply satisfying. In fact his two worldsours and its fourth-dimensional neighbormay be seen as representing two sides of an equation, just as his two sets of charactersLaura and Omar, Gigigi and Ramoomare oddly identical.

The Boy Who Reversed Himself by William Sleator

The mathematics of their milieu has also been made intellectually comprehensible (no small achievement) by Sleator's skillful introduction of theoretical considerations into his plot and his consistent application of them. The alternative world that they find is a spectacularly successful speculative achievement, thanks in part to its remarkable verisimilitude and in part to Sleator's success in creating wonderfully alien creatures who are, nevertheless, emotionally and intellectually comprehensible. Omar, a "weird" new kid, and teenage Laura are the travelers into the fourth dimension here, and those adults who may question their motivation have forgotten the overwhelming urgency of the adolescent need for love and acceptance. Grade 7 Up How can the mathematical uncertainties and complexities of the fourth dimension translate into a successful novel? Sleator begins by creating fully realized, sympathetic, three -dimensional characters whom readers are eager to follow into an alternative "terra" so "incognita" as to boggle the mind and inspire an almost Lovecraftian horror.







The Boy Who Reversed Himself by William Sleator