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| A town divided by class lines is thrown into turmoil by a mysterious death, which begins to unravel the lives of a fifteen-year-old girl, a young boy, and a women running from her own destiny. By the author of Local Girls. Simultaneous. |
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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Alice Hoffman |
| Fiction Subgenre: |
Conflicts & Dualities |
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Professional Reviews
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New York Times Book Review: "It can be hard to find an example of good old-fashioned storytelling these days, but storytelling, refreshingly, is Alice Hoffman's strength....But...[b]y the end, one thing is clear: it might take a well-populated village to raise a plot, but it takes three or four strong characters to keep that plot in motion....Spinning a solid tale is indeed a form of very practical magic. But it's another, impractical sort of magic that allows a writer to gain insight into human acts and motivations....", Salon: "Hoffman glides with ease through potentially hokey matters--she has a lovely gift for writing about ghosts and karmic retribution as if they were the most natural things in the world. But her work doesn't hang upon spectral photographs or floral-scented phantoms. What Hoffman does masterfully is crawl inside the heads of regular people as they fall in love, grieve and sink into the bitterest loneliness, as they find a place in the world, as they die.", San Francisco Chronicle Book Review: "Far too few novelists are drawn to write about the impacts of class and wealth on poor kids, but with this, her 14th novel, Hoffman effortlessly draws us into a disturbing coming-of-age story." |
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Book Editions
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- Audio - Audio Cassette
- Unabridged
- July 01, 2000
- Brilliance Audio
- 7.25"(h) x 4.5"(w) x 2.5"(d), 0.65 lbs.
- 9781567403787
, - Audio - Compact Disc
- Abridged
- August 28, 2009
- Brilliance Audio
- 6.75"(h) x 5"(w) x 1.5"(d), 0.3 lbs.
- 9781441812650
, - Audio - Compact Disc
- Unabridged
- August 28, 2009
- Brilliance Audio Lib Edn
- 6.25"(h) x 6.75"(w) x 1"(d), 0.6 lbs.
- 9781441812643
, - Audio - Compact Disc
- Unabridged
- August 28, 2009
- Brilliance Audio
- 6.75"(h) x 5"(w) x 1.5"(d), 0.4 lbs.
- 9781441812636
, - Audio - MP3 CD
- Unabridged
- January 25, 2005
- Brilliance Audio Lib Edn
- 8"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.25 lbs.
- 9781596005327
, - Audio - MP3 CD
- Unabridged
- January 25, 2005
- Brilliance Audio
- 7.5"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.2 lbs.
- 9781596005310
, - Paperback
- Reissue
- 344
- July 01, 2001
- Berkley Pub Group
- 8.25"(h) x 5"(w) x 1"(d), 0.6 lbs.
- 9780425179673
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| Publisher's Note: |
The Haddan School was built in 1858 on the sloping banks of the Haddan River, a muddy and precarious location that had proven disastrous from the start. That very first year, when the whole town smelled of cedar shavings, there was a storm of enormous proportions, with winds so strong that dozens of fish were drawn up from the reedy shallows, then lifted above the village in a shining cloud of scales. |
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