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And Love Replied book cover
And Love Replied
1958
First Published
3.67
Average Rating
245
Number of Pages
When seventeen-year-old Betty moves from her Chicago home to a New York suburb, she has the confidence of a pretty girl who has always been secure in a clearly defined and comfortable middle-class environment. Aware that she has not yet been in love, she waits eagerly for the attractive and acceptable young man who will come gracefully into the scheme of things and claim her. It is, therefore, with something of a shock that she realizes that she is deeply and enduringly in love with Cliff, a manual worker who has never completed high school, but whose and integrity capture Betty. Everything in her orderly background calls cut, "no," but love's reply is affirmative and the two young people agree that someday (when Cliff has finished high school and his military service and his military service and Betty, college), they will marry. Mary Stolz, whose previous novels for teenagers have marked her as perhaps the most incisive and interesting of novelists for this age group, as usual, writes with poignancy and insight. But despite her skillful characterization of the heroine and her ability to tell a story with force, her resolution of the problem she presents is not convincing, and one finds no reason advanced to convince the reader that the extreme difference in background between her two major characters will not, as they mature, prove an insurmountable obstacle, an obstacle that even skillful fictional handling cannot disguise.
Avg Rating
3.67
Number of Ratings
21
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
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Author

Mary Stolz
Mary Stolz
Author · 30 books
Mary Stolz was a noted author for children and adolescents whose novels earned critical praise for the seriousness with which they took the problems of young people. Two of her books ''Belling the Tiger'' (1961) and ''The Noonday Friends'' (1965), were named Newbery Honor books by the ALA but it was her novels for young adults that combined romance with realistic situations that won devotion from her fans. Young men often created more problems and did not always provide happy ever after endings. Her heroines had to cope with complex situations and learn how to take action whether it was working as nurses (The Organdy Cupcakes), living in a housing project (Ready or Not), or escaping from being a social misfit by working for the summer as a waitress (The Sea Gulls Woke Me).
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