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Clarke, Judith

Night Train

200 pp. | Holt | June, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-8050-6151-7 $$16.95
(4) YA Luke's family, teachers, and girlfriend are worried about his erratic behavior, but are unable to penetrate the Australian teenager's emotional confusion and isolation. The novel features one arresting metaphor--a mysterious night train--but the format, which shifts among multiple perspectives, is so diffuse that characterizations remain one-dimensional and we never come to more than a superficial understanding of the disturbed protagonist.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

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