Beyond the Looking Glass Author:Robert Quinn Beyond the Looking Glass is the story of a young boy, who at age 14, dares to venture outside the boundaries of his small world by hopping on a freight train. Like Alice who found her Wonderland when she passed through her Looking Glass, the author finds looking glasses that do not reflect the Wonderland that lays beyond or the Mad-Hatter charac... more »ters he encounters along the way toward Rite of Passage. The reader experiences the young lad's immaturity, then his gradual maturation as he overcomes obstacles in his quest to join the navy during World War Two. He succeeds at the age of 16 in his quest and participates in the Saipan and Guam amphibious landings and later the re-taking of the Philippine Islands where his aircraft carrier suffers a kamikase attack. Bob Quinn's story begins with the encounter of his first Looking Glass--a slow moving freight train-------« less