Name: Blackbird House
SKU: 18741819
Price: 698.00 TWD
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Author: Hoffman Alice
ISBN: 9780099453871

Type

Physical Book

Author

Hoffman Alice

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0099453878

ISBN13

9780099453871

Blackbird House

Hoffman Alice (Author) · Vintage · Paperback

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Synopsis "Blackbird House "

From the great May storm in 1778 when John Hadley and his sons slip the British blockade off the coast of Massachusetts only to disappear at sea, the lives of the inhabitants of the wooden farmhouse on the cape, stranded amid fields of sweet peas and wild fruit vines and red pear trees, coil and weave around each other, right up to the present. Young Isaac Hadley is more interested in his pet blackbird and the star charts in The Practical Navigator than in helping to build the house; and Violet, a century later, with her stained face and her own ghostly bird, reads the same book, and finds that it's easy enough to trick a learned man, though harder to catch one...Larkin Howard is ready to sell his soul to buy the farm, but meets a woman who hears the whales cry on the beach; while in another century the young Farrell boy sees more than he should on a snowy night- and the pond out back is still dark and unforgiving beneath its deceptively golden lilies. By the 1950s, the farmhouse is part of a community of steady men and wayward boys, and women who make jam but still feel the ghostly breath of Cora Hadley, with her green fingers. As a second century draws to a close and summer visitors from the cities take over the countryside, the house can barely hold all its ghosts, but the tragedies are not over...With a sense of place that is uncanny, and vividly real characters whose lives don't run smooth and whose stories loop together across space and time, this is a remarkable, haunting and accomplished work from a favourite novelist - an irresistible fiction about a house for all seasons.

Hoffman Alice

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Alice Hoffman es una reconocida autora estadounidense nacida en Nueva York en 1952. Desde joven mostró un gran interés por la literatura y la narración de historias. Estudió en Adelphi University, donde se graduó en escritura creativa, y más tarde obtuvo una maestría en la Universidad de Stanford. Su talento literario se manifestó muy temprano, cuando comenzó a publicar relatos en revistas importantes.

La obra de Hoffman se caracteriza por la mezcla de lo real y lo mágico. En sus novelas, los elementos sobrenaturales se integran con la vida cotidiana, creando un estilo poético y emotivo. Su primera novela, Property Of (1977), marcó el inicio de una carrera prolífica. Sin embargo, alcanzó fama internacional con Practical Magic (1995), una historia sobre dos hermanas con poderes mágicos que combina el amor, la tragedia y la herencia familiar.

A lo largo de su carrera, Hoffman ha escrito tanto para adultos como para jóvenes, explorando temas como la esperanza, la identidad, la pérdida y el poder de las mujeres. Su prosa delicada y su imaginación profunda la han convertido en una de las voces más queridas de la narrativa contemporánea estadounidense.

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