Practical Magic
by:
Alice Hoffman (author)
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well: As children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to...
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For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well: As children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One would do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they shared, even into adulthood, brought them back--almost as if by magic...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780425168462 (0425168468)
Publish date: October 1st 1998
Publisher: Berkley
Pages no: 317
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Magic,
Paranormal,
Witches,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Magical Realism,
Supernatural
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to...
I'm just gonna c/p the review I sent to my friend who prompted me to read this: My thoughts: I liked it, it seemed VERY hetero-romantic focused in a noticeable way, I realized that using romantic fate as a major plot point is boring for me because it takes choice and nuance out of things, and I like...
I'm just gonna c/p the review I sent to my friend who prompted me to read this: My thoughts: I liked it, it seemed VERY hetero-romantic focused in a noticeable way, I realized that using romantic fate as a major plot point is boring for me because it takes choice and nuance out of things, and I like...
Even though this is a tale about witches, to me it seems more a story about family, specifically sisters but family in general also. And it does have romance too. I enjoyed it.
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman For so many reasons I couldn't quite pinpoint--and had required a long, thorough think--this book was both frustrating and fascinating at the same time. I went through a roller coaster of thinking: "Man, this book is not working for me" to "Hmm... this is actual...
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