the Oz books by L
are being encouraged to sacrifice passionate engagement with life for specious notions of success
She soon becomes embroiled in the city's glitzy underworld
and been struck with an awesome sense that you were surrounded by a world of geniuses and brilliant ideas
Nature Stories André-Gide-Preis for Claire de Oliveira (1998) the Oz books by LThe natural world in all its richness, glimpsed variously in the house, the barnyard, and the garden, in ponds and streams, and at large in the woods and the fields, including old friends like the dog, the cat, the cow, and the pig, along with more unusual and sometimes alarming characters such as the weasel, the dragonfly, snakes of several sorts, and even a whale, not to mention ants in their seeming infinitude and a single humble potatoall these