MARK J. CZERWINSKI, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 06-11-2000 SECOND HEAVEN! -- DEVILS WIN STANLEY CUP IN OVERTIME By MARK J. CZERWINSKI, Staff Writer Date: 06-11-2000, Sunday Section: SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Notes: Devils 2, Stars 1; Ran in...

JIM McGOVERN The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-07-1995 FINISHING SECOND: ALMOST A SLICE OF HEAVEN By JIM McGOVERN Date: 08-07-1995, Monday Section: SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star B, 1 Star Late, 1 Star Early Column: ON...

To get right to the question at hand, the answer is Yes Judith Guest has done it again. The hundreds of thousands of readers who were touched and amused by her lovely first novel, "Ordinary People," are going to find themselves touched and amused by her second, "Second Heaven." If from time to time Guest seems to be straining in the effort to demonstrate that she is no one-shot phenomenon, who's to complain? The virtues of "Second Heaven" are manifold, and fa...

I can't complain that I wasn't moved by Judith Guest's "Second Heaven."… I was moved, I really was. I felt tense and worried in all the right places and sighed with relief when I ought to have and cheered when the heroine, Catherine (Cat) Holzman, snaps at her psychiatrist: "I think you make a fetish out of refusing to give advice. It's not natural. You should see someone about it." (Lo and behold, he then gives advice!) I even cried in the one ...

[In] "Second Heaven," Judith Guest brings her own passionate moral concerns to a fine, old-style, high-drama confrontation with evil. (p. 12) As in "Ordinary People," the teen-age boy in "Second Heaven" is evoked with great tenderness and insight. When Miss Guest curves her writing arm about the shoulders of a troubled boy he must sooner or later yield up his heart and mind to her, no matter how hard he tries to hold back.