Dream Palace
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The photographs on our front cover this month are taken from Round Buildings, Square Buildings & Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish by Philip Isaacson. Hardback (0 86203 447 7) and paperback (0 86203 468 X) are published by Julia MacRae.
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A book of echoes - Steve Tully plays a silent harmonica and the past re-runs like a dangerous video. His grandfather blew up a band of guardsmen, his wife having betrayed him with one of them. There are parallels with Steve's own life and in the lives of the foe, also a resident of the same children's home, and Kathy, Joe's girlfriend - desired by Steve. The pace of the narrative is brisk and the action plentiful. There's stimulation for the reluctant or male reader. There are also irritations - repetitive vocabulary and a shallowness of tone. Suggest this to 3rd or 4th year boys.
