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Review: "Occasionally a fresh and important new talent breaks through the hardened soil of contemporary literature. Such a talent is Eleanor Green's. In this, her first novel, she has created a dozen lives, delicately mirrored in the awareness of a young girl. 'What can they know of youth who are still young?' wrote an American poet. This book gives an answer, insisting as it does on the rare possibility of glory. The scene is a family picnic, where Vinnie watches from a hill at sunset the people who are her parents and relatives, whose histories of victory and defeat flow through the sensitive channels of her mind. In each life is a compact novel, and the reader will leave them and Vinnie with a strengthened belief in the richness of existence."
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