“As usual. Hoffman draws her characters with great care.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Engaging ... Hoffman is especially good at cataloguing the range of reactions that tragedies can draw ... intriguing characters.”
—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“A compelling tale that is enhanced by her lush imagery.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Her characters [are] so achingly real ... her prose so seductive.”
—USA Today
“A delectable writer ... God bless her.” —New York Daily News
PRAISE FOR THE PREVIOUS WORKS OF
ALICE HOFFMAN
Illumination Night
“Daringly mixing comedy with tragedy ... [Hoffman] has created a narrative that somehow makes myth out of the sticky complexities of contemporary marriage ... Her characters are branded onto one’s memory.”—The New York Times Book Review
The River King
“Flows as swiftly and limpidly as the Haddan River, the town’s mystical waterway ... As ever, Hoffman mixes myth, magic, and reality, addressing issues of town and gown, enchanting her readers with a many-layered morality tale and proving herself once again an inventive author with a distinctive touch.” —Publishers Weekly (starred)
Here on Earth
“[Hoffman] plumbs the interior lives of, among others, a drunken recluse, a heartsick teenage boy, an angry daughter, a near madman, a cuckolded husband, and three wounded women, with such modesty and skill that she seems to witness rather than invent their lives.”
—Entertainment Weekly
Angel Landing
“A good, old-fashioned love story ... Alice Hoffman’s writing at its precise and heartbreaking best.” —The Washington Post Book world
Local Girls
“She is one of the best writers we have today—insightful, funny, intelligent, with a dinstinctive voice ... [Local Girls] does a lot to show that Hoffman is an established artist at her peak.”
—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Second Nature
“Suspenseful ... a dark, romantic meditation on what it means to be human.” —The New Yorker
Property Of
“An unmistakably gifted work ... Alice Hoffman flares with talent.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Turtle Moon
“Hard to put down ... full of characters who take hold of your heart.”
—The San Francisco Examiner
Practical Magic
“Splendid ... one of her best novels.”—Newsweek
Fortune’s Daughter
“[An] intimate, lovely novel, most of whose concerns swirl about the pain and joys of motherhood.” —People
PRAISE FOR ALICE HOFFMAN
“Hoffman seems certain to join such writers as Anne Tyler and Mary Gordon ... a major novelist.”—Newsweek
“One of the brightest and most imaginative of contemporary writers.”
—The Sacramento Bee
“Her touch is so light, her writing so luminous.”—The Orlando Sentinel
“Her novels are as fluid and graceful as dreams.”
—The San Diego Union-Tribune
“A reader is in good hands with Alice Hoffman, able to count on many pleasures.”—Jane Smiley, USA Today
“Alice Hoffman is a real writer who pleasures us as she teaches, distracts us from real life as she illuminates it.”—Judith Rossner
“With her glorious prose and extraordinary eye ... Alice Hoffman seems to know what it means to be a human being.”
—Susan Isaacs, Newsday