# Ole O'Leary *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Nov 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *03 Nov 1997, 13:11* Publisher's Weekly has named Patrick O'Leary's The Gift one of the best books of '97, calling it "an unusually adept enchantment that takes classic fantasy elements---sorcery, a demon, a woodcutter's son, a young king---and weaves them into a genuinely magical tale." -alga- ---