For a reviewer, there’s always a temptation to seek a link when writing about more than one book at a time. In this instance, the link, if there is one, is that both these novels for young adults attempt to recreate other worlds, albeit in one case an imagined one, in the other a ‘real’ one. In other respects, however, they could hardly be more different. One credits its readers with intelligence and stamina, the other condescends to them.
The View from Ararat by Brian Caswell
UQP $14.90 pb, 268 pp
Go and Come Back by Joan Abelove
Allen & Unwin $14.90 pb, 177 pp
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