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Published
in 1975 by Harper & Row Publishers, When Light Turns into Night
was
illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker with gentle, imprecise pen-and-ink drawings
washed with sunset-hued watercolors. The book has long been out of print. I miss
it; it was one of my personal favorites, perhaps because it explores finding the
balance between being with other people and being alone, as a young girl goes
off to be by herself for a bit before the friendly, lovely, lively raucousness
of a family dinner. It was also the first book I used rhyme in, and the only one
in which I used repetition to get across the almost-heart-beat of solitary
silence out in the country. |
| Here, two pages of text from the book, and two sets of illustrations, show
both sides of the equation. |
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| Do you have people places and people-away places? What are they? What makes
you feel like being in one or the other at a particular time? |
| Answering these questions has been a big part of my life, as a child, and as
an adult; as a writer and as a human being. To learn why and how, take a look at
Crescent's Autobiography. Now that
I think about it these themes and these questions have emerged in several of my
books: Katie in the Morning, Bat in the Dining Room, and even
This
is the Bread I Baked for Ned. I promise to get snippets of all three up, so
you can look at them and tell me what you think. |
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