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288 pp.
| Viking
| April, 2012
|
TradeISBN 978-0-670-01135-3$17.99
(3)
YA
After breaking up with her older girlfriend/patron, painter and graffiti artist Merle happens upon a mystical, aging rock legend who gives her the key (literally) to a doorway in time. An evening sharing visionary dreams with sixteen-year-old Arthur Rimbaud inspires both burgeoning artists. This impassioned ode to free-spirited artists introduces readers to the nineteenth-century French poet who influenced generations of counterculture artists.
136 pp.
| Viking
| May, 2010
|
TradeISBN 978-0-670-01212-1$15.99
(2)
YA
Hand's pungently atmospheric novel portrays illicit sexual love and theatrical talent as matters nearly sacred. Cousins Maddy and Rogan, plus glamorous Aunt Kate, are the last of their family's theatrical legacy. Rogan's otherworldly singing stuns audiences, but Kate chooses reliable Maddy for acting school in London, splitting the lovers. Romantic readers will be swept through the short novel in a single sitting.
Reviewer: Lauren Adams
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2010
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