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Published in USA
Apr 2008
288 pages
Genre: Novels
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In The Third Angel, Hoffman weaves a magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men: Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sister’s fiancé. Frieda Lewis, a doctor’s daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill-fated rock star. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex-husband. At the heart of the novel is Lucy Green, who blames herself for a tragic accident she witnessed at the age of twelve, and who spends four decades searching for the Third Angel – the angel on earth who will renew her faith.
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"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 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 and New York.
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...
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