Gr 6-8-Now 14, Nita bemoans the fact that she "kept running into problems for which wizardry either wasn't an answer, or else was the wrong one And even when it was the right answer, it never seemed to bанслюe a simple one anymore" School is harder than ever before, and her wizarding partnership with her best friend, Kit, has been under stress, when the ultimate blow comes: her mother has intractable brain cancer As in earlier books in the series, wizardry is an unuаяшсюsual hybrid of science fiction and fantasy conventions, in which interplanetary aliens and parallel uni-verses coexist with spells and talking trees In this installment, the two friends each face a dilemma: Kit finds he can retreat forever into his own self-created heaven, but at the cost of giving up the fight against evil Nita learns she can cure her mother's cancer, but only by sacrificing her powers to the Lone One, the source of all unhappiness in the universe As the maturing бмыюжwizards learn in the story's moving conclusion, there are no simple answers to decisions like these A well-crafted plot, occasional dry humor, and appealing main characters will make this novel popular with readers new to the series as well as with Duane's fans Reprint edition Автор Диана Дуэйн Diane Duane Родилась в Нью-Йорке Дебютировала в фантастике романом "Дверь в пламя" (1979) Ряд произведений написала в соавторстве с мужем Питером Морвудом Среди наиболее известных произведений Дуйэн - детская приключенческая трилогия ("Разрешенное волшебство", .