In a novel the Village Voice calls ‘memorable’ and ‘striking,’ Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven year old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS… She is erotic and romantic…Ĭlever and humane.’ The Times, London ‘Alice Hoffman takes seemingly ordinary lives and lets us see and feel extraordinary things.’ Amy Tan ‘One of the best writers we have today insightful, funny, intelligent, with a distinctive voice.’ Cleveland Plain Dealer ‘A major novelist.’ Newsweek
Petersburg Times ‘Alice Hoffman hits bull’s eyes on the incomprehensions between the young and the old, on the magic and pain of ordinary life. ‘ A bright constellation of characters…ĭraws the reader into the dusky, dreamy world of Alice Hoffman.’ St.
With her signature ‘vivid, convincing characters and uncommon insight,’ People Alice Hoffman in Illumination Night follows the lives of an old woman whose last mission is to save her granddaughter’s soul a family torn apart by a wife’s fears and a husband’s desires and a high school girl who comes to Martha’s Vineyard against her will, and who will bring everyone together in a web of yearning, sin, and ultimate redemption. And when trouble strikes - in the form of a menacing backyard ghost - the sisters must not only reunite three generations of Owens women but embrace their magic as a gift - and their key to a future of love and passion.įunny, haunting, and shamelessly romantic, Practical Magic is bewitching entertainment - Alice Hoffman at her spectacular best. As they become more aware of their aunts’ mysterious and sometimes frightening powers - and as their own powers begin to surface - the sisters grow determined to escape their strange upbringing by blending into ‘normal’ society.īut both find that they cannot elude their magic-filled past. When the beautiful and precocious sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are orphaned at a young age, they are taken to a small Massachusetts town to be raised by their eccentric aunts, who happen to dwell in the darkest, eeriest house in town. Alice Hoffman’s enchanting witch’s brew of suspense, romance and magic - now a major motion picture from Warner Bros.
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