| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback Large Print | | ISBN: 9780786220106 | | Publisher: Thorndike | | Publish Date: 5/9/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 30600551 | | Item#: RRM5CJ | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.5H x 5.75L x 0.75T | | Pages: 208 |
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| | | Alice Hoffman casts her spell over a Long Island neighborhood filled with dreamers and dreams. In a dazzling series of family portraits, she evokes the world of the Samuelson's -- a family torn apart by tragedy and divorce. Told in alternating voices, these stories are both disturbing and healing, each a lesson of survival and a reminder of the ties of blood and the power of friendship. Jane smiley has said that "a reader is in good hands with Alice Hoffman", and once again in her expert hands, everyday life is magically transformed.
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This short-story cycle details the tribulations of a Long Island family, particularly young Gretel Samuelson, who narrates many of the stories.
| PraiseSan Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"Clearly, LOCAL GIRLS isn't beach reading. But coupled with the weightiness of the book's subject matter, it is a sparkling message of hope, a Hoffman-esque belief that while human turmoil is often haphazard and undeserved, love is always present...." - Courtney Weaver 08/22/1999Literary Review
"The supernatural lurks in every biscuit tin, men are untrustworthy rats and women eventually find the strength to go on. when living and dying get a little extreme, Hoffman invokes the paranormal, replacing hard questions with pretty metaphors. This is comfort literature, and she does it well--though she sometimes falls on the wrong side of the line between charming and cloying." - Emily Perkins August 1999 |
| Author Bio| Alice Hoffman | | Hoffman is the daughter of a real estate salesman and a social worker. When they divorced, she was raised by her mother on Long Island. A voracious reader, Hoffman has had a lifelong interest in magic and fairy tales, and her reading has had an obvious effect on her own writing, which tends to incorporate fantasy and myth. She has a B.A. from Adelphi College and an M.F.A. from Stanford. |
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