The Drowning Season (Plume Contemporary Fiction) - Softcover

Hoffman, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452263026 ISBN 13: 9780452263024

Verlag: Penguin, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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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• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0452263026
• ISBN 13: 9780452263024
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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