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The Drowning Season

Alice Hoffman
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Duration
6h 34m
Year
2015
Language
English
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing

About

The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a stubbornly suicidal son and a defiant, restless granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family as well as the grounds of their secluded waterfront estate. But he has been watching Esther, too. And his love for her is growing wild enough to uproot them all.The author of Here on Earth and The River King presents a "stunning and hypnotic" novel that "interweaves past and present with piercing images and unfailing energy" (Publishers Weekly).

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Reviews

"An original and moving novel about two women whose fierce individuality almost keeps them from knowing and loving each other. It is always memorable, and wonderful, when a novelist can lavish such complexity and such affection on two warring characters that the reader feels sympathetic to them both…A sad and wise story, told with grace-a superb novel by a writer of the most admirable energy."
John Irving
"A fierce and wicked fairy tale of these 'modern' times.. Alice Hoffman has an extraordinary sense of the fabulous…The Drowning Season is a touching and startling novel by a young writer who has a feeling for myth, genuine wickedness, and the nagging perversity of love."
New York Times Book Review
"A spare, translucent, gothic novel about a family of living ghosts…A beautiful book."
Richard Price New York Times bestselling author

Artists

Alice Hoffmanauthor
Bernadette Dunnereader

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