Title
attributed to Andre Norton
Through the Needle's Eye ~ Short Story
Bibliography ~
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* High
Sorcery (1970) * Published by
ACE, PB, 0-441-33701-, $0.60, 156pg ~
cover by
Gray Morrow
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Sisters of Sorcery: Two Centuries
of Witchcraft Stories by the Gentle Sex (1976) * Edited by
Soen Manley & Gogo Lewis, Published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, HC, 0-688-41765-5, $13.00,
220pg
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Moon
Mirror (1988) * Published by
TOR, HC, 0-312-93098-4, LCCN 88020136,
$17.95, 250pg ~ cover by
Yvonne Gilbert
Synopsis ~
The narrator, looking back, on her childhood as a
little girl crippled by polio, begins with the day she refused to go to a
birthday party, since she couldn't join in the games. Exploring the back garden
to kill time, she crosses over into the neighboring property - to find a
beautiful quilt on a clothesline, a work of art. And then a voice behind her
asks her opinion of it. Thus she meets Anne Ruthevan - an artist in needlework
whose life and body were both smashed by the carriage accident that killed her
father when she was twenty. The now-elderly Miss Ruthevan takes the girl on as
a student in the art of needlework. For hundreds of years, Ruthevan women have
had the gift - witness the centuries-old tapestries in Miss Ruthevan's home.
But what price have they had to pay for the greatest triumphs of their art?
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