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Article: Pullman's Progress: With 'The Amber Spyglass,' novelist Philip Pullman emerges as our most beguiling magical realist for all ages.(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)(Young Adult Review)
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- October 30, 2000
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Synopsis doesn't do Philip Pullman justice. His best-known books, a trilogy called "His Dark Materials," are classified as fantasy and sold as fiction for young-adult readers. Like "Harry Potter" creator J. K. Rowling, this author invents a world filled with strange divinations and wordplays. In "His Dark Materials," there are tiny creatures called Gallivespians and horrible monsters called cliffghasts. There are instruments and devices with weird names like alethiometer and intention craft. The hero and heroine are 12-year-olds on a quest to save the world. Only they don't know it. And on top of all that, the author is working out an argument with organized religion that ...
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Article: The Amber Spyglass.(Review)(Children's Review)
The Horn Book Magazine;
November 1, 2000 ;
700+ words
... ... Philip Pullman The Amber Spyglass 523 pp. Knopf 10 ... typescript copy of The Amber Spyglass, I'm tempted to ... third volume of His Dark Materials, just may come to ... unsuitable reaction to The Amber Spyglass. The nature of temptation ...
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