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A review by duenorth
Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin
5.0
Truly timeless.
Rite of Passage is right up there with Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang for a story so perfectly written that the passage of time (to-date; it was written in the 1960s) has not tarnished its believability and relevance.
Extra marks for a 1960s book with an intelligent, multi-faceted adolescent female protagonist and for bravely exploring racism and, more subtly, genocide, at their roots.
It was so enjoyable I was crushed to realize Alexei Panshin has written only a few books. I will hunt them all down and devour them.
Rite of Passage is right up there with Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang for a story so perfectly written that the passage of time (to-date; it was written in the 1960s) has not tarnished its believability and relevance.
Extra marks for a 1960s book with an intelligent, multi-faceted adolescent female protagonist and for bravely exploring racism and, more subtly, genocide, at their roots.
It was so enjoyable I was crushed to realize Alexei Panshin has written only a few books. I will hunt them all down and devour them.