The book was reissued in 2006 the new cover (at right) shows a recognizable bridge over the Lyman Lakes. Janet and her roommates shop at Jacobsen's for fabric to decorate their room. College buildings are renamed in decipherable ways: Laird Hall has become Masters Nourse has become Ericson Burton has become Taylor Evans is Eliot (as in George, as in Mary Ann Evans). She befriends a group of drama-loving Classics majors whose speech patterns, cryptic references to age, and intimate knowledge of Shakespeare hint that they are no ordinary college students.Īnyone who knows the Carleton campus, the Arb or Northfield will enjoy the very recognizable descriptions of place in this novel, which combines a dark magical tale with a college coming-of-age story. Janet Carter, daughter of a "Blackstock" English professor, has grown up around campus and is now a student there. It's part of Tor Books' Fairy Tale Series and was originally published with the cover at left in 1991. I've just been rereading, for about the fourth time over the past fifteen years or so, Pamela Dean's novel Tam Lin, a modern retelling of an old Scottish ballad, set at a thinly disguised Carleton College of the early 1970s.
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