Illumination Night - Softcover

Hoffman, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099429187 ISBN 13: 9780099429180

Verlag: Vintage, 2002

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Críticas:

"Alice Hoffman hits bulls-eyes on the incomprehension between the young and the old, of the magic and pain of ordinary life. She is erotic and romantic, funny and clever and humane" (Philip Howard The Times)

"A beautiful book. Fresh and dauntless" (Toni Morrison)

"Compelling...Illumination Night is a novel of convincing psychological realism" (Marge Piercy)

"An authentic prose stylist of a high order" (Boston Globe)

"A shimmering, radiant tale" (Publishers Weekly)

Reseña del editor:

Vonny lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard with her husband Andre and son Simon. Their neighbour Elizabeth, a woman in her seventies, falls from an upstairs window and her granddaughter Jody is summoned to nurse her through her convalescence.

The scene is set for a magical story of love and loneliness, of terror and human frailty, of the mystery and grace of ordinary experience. Alice Hoffman's ability to fuse the domestic and the mythic in a narrative of such gentle yet magnetic force confirms her stature as one of the most gifted of American novelists.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0099429187
• ISBN 13: 9780099429180
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208