The narrative thus combines fantastic action and adventure with familial drama, a winning combo in many contemporary YA books. Our band of intrepid heroes also meets strange and alien characters, allying with some of them to battle IT, a great darkness engulfing planets and their populations in terrifying conformity. Although much older than the flurry of YA books jostling each other for shelf space and attention today, the novel has many of the hallmarks that make such fiction popular among adolescents (and late-blooming adults): oddball characters who face tremendous trials and great battles - all, at least in part, to reunite a father with his family - as well as fantasy aplenty. In many ways, the introduction should be a relatively soft sell. But ever since I started reading L’Engle in earnest about 10 years ago (I know, I know: I’m a late bloomer), I have become a staunch supporter of her many novels, several of which are practically forgotten but deserve contemporary readers, such as A House Like a Lotus (1984) and one of her extraordinary novels for adults, A Severed Wasp (1982).Ī Wrinkle in Time, published in 1962, has been a perennial favorite for many readers, and my hope is that the Disney adaptation - though almost certain to botch the job in some way for some readers, including me - will introduce a new generation to L’Engle’s work. ![]() ![]() I say “ridiculously” because I’m a 50-year-old white man whose passion for L’Engle’s work strikes some of my colleagues and friends as … odd. JONATHAN ALEXANDER: I have been ridiculously excited about the release of Disney’s film adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, which is due out March 9.
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