Illumination Night

Alice Hoffman

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Vintage
07 June 2002

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

'Daringly mixing comedy with tragedy, and the quotidian with the fabulous, she has created a narrative that somehow makes myth out of the sticky complexities of contemporary marriage... Hoffman writes so simply about human passions that her characters are branded on to one's memory' - New York Times

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.

By: Alice Hoffman
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 149g
ISBN: 9780099429180
ISBN 10: 0099429187
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 07 June 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alice Hoffman is the bestselling author of many successful novels and screenplays, including Here on Earth (Oprah Book Club Choice in 1998), Illumination Nights, Turtle Moon, Practical Magic (made into a recent major film), Local Girls and The River King. She lives in Massachusetts.

Reviews for Illumination Night

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

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Alice Hoffman

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