Here on Earth - Brossura

Hoffman, Alice

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0425169693 ISBN 13: 9780425169698

Casa editrice: Berkley, 1999

Riassunto

A middle-aged woman, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, returns to her small Massachusetts hometown for the funeral of the housekeeper who raised her and finds herself thrust into the lives of the people she left behind. Reprint.

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Praise for Here on Earth

“Written with great wisdom and compassion...one of the finest fictional explorations of family love, and all those forces that threaten to undermine it, that I've read in many years.”—The Washington Post Book World

“Here on Earth is Hoffman's twelfth novel, and the spell she casts is stronger than ever.”—Orlando Sentinel

“A sound addition to an impressive body of work.”—Boston Globe

“Haunting...it will enthrall the reader from beginning to end.”—Library Journal

“Sumptuous prose...a way with words that can leave readers breathless.”—The Denver Post

L'autore:

Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including The Rules of Magic, Practical Magic, The Marriage of Opposites, The Red Garden, the Oprah’s Book Club selection Here on Earth, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, and The Dovekeepers. She lives near Boston.

Alice Hoffman is the best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, and several other novels, including,  Blue Diary (2001), The River King (2000), Local Girls(1999), Here On Earth (1997), Practical Magic (1995), Second Nature (1994), Turtle Moon (1992), Seventh Heaven (1990), At Risk (1988), Illumination Night(1987), Fortune’s Daughter (1985), White Horses (1982), Angel Landing (1980), The Drowning Season (1979), and Property Of (1977). She is also the author of three children’s books: Aquamarine (2001), Horsefly (2000), and Fireflies (1997).

Born in New York City, and raised on Long Island, Hoffman graduated from Adelphi University and received an M.A. from Stanford University, where she was Mirrielees Fellow. She currently lives near Boston with her family and her dogs.

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• Editore: Berkley
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0425169693
• ISBN 13: 9780425169698
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336