In her books, Below The Root and And All Between, Zilpha K. Snyder chooses to examine man's inhumanity to fellow man arising out of the abuse of power…. In her sequel And All Between, Snyder attempts an interesting literary experiment. The same story told in the first book is now told from the point of view of [a different character]…. The first reaction to the technique is "what an easy way to write a second novel," but a fairer assessment of Snyder's attempt to provide a dual point of view must be made. The dual narration is an interesting innovation, but it would have been more effective if the two points of view could have been integrated into one novel to avoid the repetition of so much of the dialogue. In this second book, the plot is carried beyond the conclusion of the first book to a confrontation between the power factions of Green-sky. Snyder poses the age-old question: should one submit to evil, or use evil methods to oppose it? Her thought-provoking portrait of a society seeking to escape the curse of violence and her experiment in narrative technique make these books stimulating reading. (p. 219)
Margaret P. Esmonde, "After Armageddon: The Post Cataclysmic Novel for Young Readers," in Children's Literature: Annual of The Modern Language Association Seminar on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association, Vol. 6, edited by Francelia Butler (© 1977 by Francelia Butler; reprinted by permission of The Children's Literature Foundation, Box 370, Windham Center, CT 06280), Temple University Press, 1977, pp. 211-20.∗
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