The Drowning Season - Brossura

Hoffman, Alice

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0425184757 ISBN 13: 9780425184752

Casa editrice: Berkley, 2002

Riassunto

Upon turning eighteen, Esther the Black looks for a chance to escape from her hated and dying grandmother, Esther the White, a cold matriarch who lives in seclusion on Long Island, where each summer her son, Philip, tries to kill himself by walking into the ocean. Reprint.

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Praise for The Drowning Season

“A triumph.”—Los Angeles Times

“Absolutely magical...one of the best books I have ever read.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“A superb novel.”—John Irving

“A touching and startling novel.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Awesome and funny...Hoffman is operating in Kafka's realm, in the territory of I. B. Singer, and of Tolstoy's folk tales...[S]he has tapped some timeless quality of human experience.”—Newsday

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 author of fifteen novels: 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: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0425184757
• ISBN 13: 9780425184752
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240