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Discover four acclaimed early novels by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers. One of today's most beloved authors of lyrical fiction with a touch of magic, Alice Hoffman boasts a body of work that has been praised by readers and critics from the very beginning. This collection includes her first novel, plus three more of her outstanding tales.
Property Of: Hoffman's debut about teenage girls in mascara and leather and their attraction to local toughs.
The Drowning Season intertwines the stories of two women named Esther: a granddaughter, who yearns to escape the Long Island shore and the coldness of the family matriarch; and her grandmother, who fled her abusive parents in Russia decades before.
Fortune's Daughter: A New York Times Notable Book, this luminous novel of a restless young traveler and a fortune-teller with a secret is a tribute to the profound mysteries of motherhood and childbirth.
At Risk is a New York Times bestseller that will leave few dry eyes. In 1980s America, a family copes with their daughter's terrifying AIDS diagnosis.
Property Of: Hoffman's debut about teenage girls in mascara and leather and their attraction to local toughs.
The Drowning Season intertwines the stories of two women named Esther: a granddaughter, who yearns to escape the Long Island shore and the coldness of the family matriarch; and her grandmother, who fled her abusive parents in Russia decades before.
Fortune's Daughter: A New York Times Notable Book, this luminous novel of a restless young traveler and a fortune-teller with a secret is a tribute to the profound mysteries of motherhood and childbirth.
At Risk is a New York Times bestseller that will leave few dry eyes. In 1980s America, a family copes with their daughter's terrifying AIDS diagnosis.
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"[Property Of is] a remarkably envisioned novel, almost mythic in its cadences, hypnotic . . . The imagining is true, the writing lovely."
The New York Times
"[The Drowning Season] casts the spell of all great fairy tales. It takes daily life and transforms it into myth as we watch."
Chicago Sun-Times
"By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming . . . [Fortune's Daughter is an] intimate, lovely novel, most of whose concerns swirl about the pain and joys of motherhood."
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