Local Girls
by:
Alice Hoffman (author)
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman is at her haunting, thought-provoking best with these interconnected stories about a Long Island family, the Samuelsons, and the lessons in survival and transformation that life brings to every family..."Pulls the...
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman is at her haunting, thought-provoking best with these interconnected stories about a Long Island family, the Samuelsons, and the lessons in survival and transformation that life brings to every family..."Pulls the reader in effortlessly...Hoffman has the power to make you really laugh and really cry." --USA Today"Moving and deadpan funny...Epiphanies about passion, pain, and resiliency induce smiles and shivers in equal measure." --Entertainment Weekly
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780425174340 (0425174344)
Publish date: May 1st 2000
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Adult Fiction,
Realistic Fiction,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Magical Realism,
Short Stories,
Womens
More than a story about transformation, it is one of transcendence. The version I read, bore the cover image of a hand attempting to grab at a heel, and it reminded me of the Biblical Jacob's attempt to usurp his brother Esau's birthright. The characters in this story aimed to overcome their difficu...
The shorts were okay alone, but didn't work as an overall book for me. They just didn't fit together properly, and they tried to be a complete story. It can work, it has in the past, but it didn't work in this case for me. Also, super depressing. Blargh. Onto Practical Magic!
Four minus.Sweet and short, in that order. I finished it in one evening.Hoffman has a wonderful writing style. She wrote "Practical Magic," which was made into a movie. If you've seen it, you know that she's strong on female characters and the bonds between them. Reading this book, I fell in lov...
In this coming of age tale, Gretel and Jill are Long Island teens in a contemporary setting, Franconia, a place so bereft of imagination that all the local enterprises use the town’s name for theirs. There are moments in which magic enlivens the story and provides a context. In one, Gretel and Jaso...
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