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By the Shore
Galaxy Craze. Grove Press: 2000 (paperback). ISBN: 0802136877: 231 pages.
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Would you say that early adolescence is a difficult time for most people?
Would you say that it's generally one of the less graceful periods in a person's life? For all those of you pausing to
torture yourself with visions of your 7th grade hair, skin, and smooth moves, we ask you to consider instead the difficulty
of writing a novel from that adolescent perspective. We ask you to consider the many less-than-graceful literary efforts
that authors have made to make this perspective seem "real" to adult readers. It's actually one of the hardest things to
do as a writer, and Galaxy Craze can do it. This is a wonderfully original, astoundingly convincing coming-of-age story
about a young British girl living on the outskirts and looking in. Craze's ability to make the intangible tangible is truly
impressive-her words recreate that mysterious mental place where a young person can still, on occasion, think with the
imaginative consciousness of a child, even as she longs to think with the practicality and cynicism of an adult.
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