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John M. Ford is the best writer in America, bar none. --Robert Jordan <br> Brilliant is as brilliant does....Whether human, minor Elf nobility (the Ellyon), or Highborn Urthas Elves, Ford's generous cast of characters continually surprises, intrigues, and pulses with life, a tribute to his power as a storyteller. Haunting, puzzling, even unsettling and deliberately obscure, this improvisatory jazzlike riff of good and evil in the context of a most unusual growing-up story is as bittersweet as first love and loss, a minor-key elegy for death of youth and innocence. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) <br> Ford's evocation of this transformed Chicago has a magic all its own....Beyond the life-or-death tests and the mind-bending puzzles, this is fundamentally a love story, with a deeply satisfying climax (in every sense of the word). -- The New York Times <br> Rasping, succinct, tantalizing, and psychologically complex, as well as powerfully visual...Superb. -- Kirkus Reviews (s
