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A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles, Book 4 [Paperback]

Madeleine L'Engle
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Sep 2 2008 Austin Family (Book 4)
After a tumultuous year in New York City, the Austins are spending the summer on the small island where their grandfather lives. He’s very sick, and watching his condition deteriorate as the summer passes is almost more than Vicky can bear. To complicate matters, she finds herself as the center of attention for three very different boys.
     Zachary Grey, the troubled and reckless boy Vicky met last summer, wants her all to himself as he grieves the loss of his mother. Leo Rodney has been just a friend for years, but the tragic loss of his father causes him to turn to Vicky for comfort—and romance. And then there’s Adam Eddington. Adam is only asking Vicky to help with his research on dolphins. But Adam—and the dolphins—may just be what Vicky needs to get through this heartbreaking summer.

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“With customary grace and firm control of an intricate plot, L’Engle has created another irresistible novel about familiar characters, the Austin family. Vicky, 16, narrates the climactic events with Grandfather Eaton on a New England island, where he is living his last days.”—Publishers Weekly

“L’Engle has the magic storytelling gift that makes it a pleasure to lose yourself in her spell.”—Newsweek

“L’Engle writes eloquently about death and life with provocative passages that linger in the thoughts of the perceptive.”—Booklist, Starred Review

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Vicky Austin is filled with strong feelings as she stands near Commander Rodney's grave while her grandfather, who himself is dying of cancer, recites the funeral service. Watching his condition deteriorate as the summer passes on beautiful Seven Bay Island is almost more than Vicky can bear. To complicate things, she finds herself the center of attention for three very different boys: Leo is an old friend wanting comfort and longing for romance; Zachary, whose attempted suicide inadvertently caused the Commander's death, is attractive and sophisticated but desperately troubled; and Adam, her older brother's friend, offers her a wonderful chance to assist in his experiments with dophins but treats her as a young girl just when she's ready to feel most grown-up.

Called upon to be dependable, stable, and wise, Vicky is exhilarated but often overwhemed. Forces of darkness and light, tragedy and joy, hover about her, and at times she doesn't know whcih will prevail. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.


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5.0 out of 5 stars A VERY touching, deep book Feb 15 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This isn't L'Engle's books about Meg or Charles Wallace, but about a girl from a rather normal family called Vicky Austin. There's a number of relationships and deaths - everything is described well. I also like L'Engle's style of writing that comes out sometimes, like in the very last page, with no commas or periods.
After I read this I was like, 'woah,' and I felt a little dizzy (perhaps it was because I read it in the car). I read it about three times and every time it touches me. It is a MUST read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautifuly Written Book April 21 2004
Format:Paperback
I first read this book when I was in middle school, and recently re-read it for a 400-level college course on children's literature. When I read this book for the first time, I wasn't overly enthralled with it, but I loved Vicky and felt the pain that she was going through with all the death around her.

When I re-read this book, I was astonished at how moving it was. The writing style is superb and the language is like poetry. The pace of the book, while it may be a little slow to younger readers, truly makes you lose yourself in the story. I believe this is a must-read for any age.

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5.0 out of 5 stars L'Engle at her finest! Sep 22 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Vicky Austin knows that this will be her last summer on Seven Bay Island with her beloved grandfather, because the scholarly retired clergyman is dying of a fast-moving form of leukemia. 15-year-old Vicky stands on the dividing line between childhood and adulthood. As a budding poet, she promises to retain childhood's heightened and sometimes painful sensitivities even after she crosses that border. That's a bond she shares with her grandfather, but not with the rest of her loving yet far more scientifically inclined family.

Complicating this already trying time for Vicky are three young men. Leo, a lifelong friend of her family, wants more from her than the companionship and sympathy she is ready to offer him. Zachary, a severely troubled and wealthy youth who was her first real boyfriend, follows her to Seven Bay Island and alternately charms and frightens her with attentions that her family would prefer she didn't accept. And Adam, her older brother John's friend from MIT, assumes an important place in her life when he discovers that Vicky's extraordinary (and unexpected, and unexplained) ability to communicate with dolphins can transform his summer project at the Island's oceanographic research station.

While Vicky's romantic and other feelings for this trio are central to the story, this is not a conventional tale of young love in which the girl's choice of suitor is the whole point. Vicky Austin is a complete person, and not about to treat romance at age 15 as the be-all and end-all of her life so far; nor as the defining influence on her future. Until now she has been something of a misfit, with her physician father and scientifically inclined older brother and younger sister tech-talking over her head. This summer, finally, "dreamy Vicky" who often slips away to write verses comes into her own. Which, as so often happens in real life, can only occur as she is tested by life. And by death, and by her responses to both.

L'Engle at her finest! Although I'm of grandmotherly years now, "A Wrinkle in Time" was among my own girlhood's defining books. I must now go out and find the rest of the Austin books. This writer's works have something to offer any reader, not just youthful ones.

--Nina M. Osier, author of "Love, Jimmy: A Maine Veteran's Longest Battle"

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5.0 out of 5 stars a lyrical, beautiful story
This book is unquestionably my favourite in the Austin series. The other books in the series are The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas, Meet the Austins, The Anti-Muffins, The Moon... Read more
Published on July 1 2004 by emily-bronte
1.0 out of 5 stars WARNING WARNING WARNING
DO NOT I repeat DO NOT read this book if you are NOT a girl under 16 years old. I am a 35 year old man and I read this book and thought it was a parody but it isn't. Read more
Published on May 13 2004 by Mr Money-Bags
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5.0 out of 5 stars Helped me become who I am
I read this book the first time when I was in junior high school. I loved it then, and read it a number of times.

I recently picked up a copy for my own daughter. Read more

Published on Oct 11 2003 by Jane James
5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing, Excellent, and Dolphini
A Ring of Enless Light is a really really good book!! It's about a girl named Vicky Austin (she's also in other books before this one by Madeline L'Engle) who comes to the island... Read more
Published on Oct 10 2003
5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic!!!
What a beatiful,well written book! This is about Vicky Austin who finds herself wondering why being a teenager is so hard. Read more
Published on Sep 3 2003
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"A Ring of Endless Light" is a book everyone can relate to, especally teens. It gave me a new understanding of life and death. The characters all have so much dimention. Read more
Published on July 19 2003 by Trish
4.0 out of 5 stars For the teen who wants a little more
As a fifteen year old girl, I often find myself slipping into the void of fluffy girly novels (The Princess Diaries and the likes), and while these are quite enjoyable, they lack... Read more
Published on July 18 2003 by Clara
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