The Red Garden Alice Hoffman
Originally not what i expected but delightful none the less.
The red garden alice hoffman. The red garden has a hint of magic here and there but little heart and no hope. Taking place in a small town in massachusetts alice hoffman follows the town founders and descendants of blackwell massachusetts. By alice hoffman book review. The glass hotel by emily st.
Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small town america presenting us with some three hundred years of passion dark secrets loyalty and redemption in a web of tales. October 15 2019 by classic leave a comment. The red garden by. More by alice hoffman.
Its primarily darkness chock full of traumatic events and despair. Its a series of short stories that are linked by place and ancestry. Alice hoffman is one of my all time favorite authors and the red garden was another gem to read. By alice hoffman bookshelf a strange subtle and haunting novel.
Alice hoffman usually writes of magic and darkness with elan with great heart and hope. The red garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of blackwell massachusetts capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives. The world that we knew. The rules of magic.
The red garden by alice hoffman. Magical and thought provoking this collection of stories is intriguing from page one through to the end. And alice hoffman certainly notices them. I love that each story has some common threads and how they build on each other.
In exquisite prose hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small town america presenting us with some three hundred years of passion dark secrets loyalty and redemption in a web of tales where characters liv. The red garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of blackwell massachusetts. Mixing in historical incidents as well as some magical realism the town and the residents feel like a very real. And in the red garden hoffman delivers a body of stories that explores the depths of reality as well as its enduring quirkiness.
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So this was a really great book to choose for the sleepy hollow square. About the red garden hoffmans characters are always moving back and forth challenging our perceptions daring us to judge them new york times book review the red garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of blackwell massachusetts.