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The Magician's Book.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

| January 26, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 2009 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The CondÃ© Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In this powerful meditation on "the schism between childhood and adult reading," Miller recounts her tumultuous relationship with the favorite books of her youth, C. S. Lewis's "Chronicles of Narnia." Filled from an early age with a distrust of the Catholic faith in which she was raised, Miller didn't notice the Christian subtext, and when she learned of it, as a teen-ager, she felt "tricked, cheated." Combining memoir, criticism, ...

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