Media Reviews

"Starred Review. [T]hree stories, gazing unerringly into forces that cause some people to self-destruct ... and others to find inner strength to last a lifetime." - Publishers Weekly.

"A solid story with a haunting plot line and interesting characters, this latest novel is sure to please Hoffman's fans and win over new readers." - Library Journal.

"Some moving material about love and loss, swamped by authorial excess." - Kirkus Reviews.

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Alice Hoffman Author Biography

Alice Hoffman was born in New York City on March 16, 1952 and grew up on Long Island. After graduating from high school in 1969, she attended Adelphi University, from which she received a BA, and then received a Mirrellees Fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, which she attended in 1973 and '74, receiving an MA in creative writing. She currently lives in Boston.

Hoffman's first novel, Property Of, was written at the age of twenty-one, while she was studying at Stanford, and published shortly thereafter by Farrar Straus and Giroux. She credits her mentor, professor and writer Albert J. Guerard, and his wife, the writer Maclin Bocock Guerard, for helping her to publish her first short story in the magazine Fiction. Editor Ted Solotaroff then contacted her to...

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