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Alice Hoffman |
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Barton, Emily, New York Times Book Review: "[T]he relationship of the characters to their surroundings is seen as a kind of magical bond, expressed in language that is both eerie and beautiful....Hoffman lets Blackbird House stand as an emblem for the transforming power of any long-established home, while reveling in the haunting quality of her own distinctive literary style." |
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Format: Paperback, 238
Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 29, 2005)
Measurements: 8"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.4 lbs.
ISBN: 9780345455932 |
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<p>With “incantatory prose” that “sweeps over the reader like a dream,” (<i>Philadelphia Inquirer)</i>, Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller <i>The Probable Future</i>, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.<br><br>In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet: Violet, a brilliant girl who is in love with books and with a man destined to betray her; Lysander Wynn, attacked by a halibut as big as a horse, certain that his life is ruined until a boarder wearing red boots <br>arrives to change everything; Maya Cooper, who does not understand the true meaning of the love between her mother and father until it is nearly too late. From the time of the British occupation of Massachusetts to our own modern wo |
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