Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Green Heart (Green Angel #1-2)

3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 · rating details · 552 ratings · 143 reviews

A two-fold tale of grief and hope, loss and love, told as only Alice Hoffman can.

When her family is lost in a terrible disaster, 15-year-old Green is haunted by loss and the past. Struggling to survive in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, Green retreats into the ruined realm of her garden. But in destroying her feelings, she also begins to destr...more

Paperback, 259 pages

Published January 1st 2012 by Scholastic Paperbacks

more details... edit details

Get a copy:

More…

Friend Reviews

To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

Lists with This Book

Best Alice Hoffman Novel

27th out of 36 books — 187 voters

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

list to be deleted

91st out of 100 books — 4 voters

More lists with this book...

Community Reviews

(showing 1-30 of 3,000)

filter | sort: default (?) | rating details

Jun 30, 2012 Elizabeth rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Tommie, Ceridwen, Abigail, et al

Shelves: reviewed, 2012, fantasy-sci-fi, in-by-of-the-americas, fey

I've been disappointed in Alice Hoffman for a long time. Practical Magic is one of the few books that isn't as good as the film. I read another one of her books, giving her the benefit of the doubt, and found it just terrible. (I'm withholding the title; it may just be me). Both times, the problem was simple disappointment. The book wasn't as good as I thought it should be. It didn't go deep enough, the magic wasn't lush enough, the descriptions were there but somehow the characters never came...more

27 likes · like · see review

Jun 14, 2012 Kirstine rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: e-books, fantasy, supernaturality-and-magic

This is a lovely book. It's fragile, it's tender, it's soaked in colours and emotion. The writing unfolds like a feather floating through the air, a slight touch of skin against skin, someone stroking your hair as you fall asleep. I don't know how to describe it - that's how I felt it.

It reads like a fairytale and a poem.
There are people who will read it and dislike it for this, I know, and that saddens me. It's not a book in our modern-day understanding of books, it is not a story the way we'...more

8 likes · like · see review

Oct 23, 2012 Jennifer rated it 1 of 5 stars

I've said this before, but I used to adore Alice Hoffman. Every once in a while she still puts out a book that I like ("The Story Sisters" is a good example), but this book, while a quick read and engaging on certain levels, was ultimately just annoying to me. It's a compilation of two novellas, "Green Angel" and "Green Witch," and both are meant to be modern-day, post-9/11 fairy tales. The language is very stylized, like a fairy tale, as is the movement of both stories. The problem is that I fo...more

1 like · like · see review

Sep 22, 2012 Penintime rated it 2 of 5 stars

I love many of Hoffman's books and I wanted to love this... And I enjoy magical realism and post-apocalyptic stories so I thought the combination would be awesome. But they don't mix, or should I say that they don't mix well in this story. This was pretty dreadful, badly written compared to her other works that I have read. But mainly, it is a really really stupid story. Nothing makes sense, which drove me nuts. The city burns and glowing embers fall from the sky. The main character gets them in...more I love many of Hoffman's books and I wanted to love this... And I enjoy magical realism and post-apocalyptic stories so I thought the combination would be awesome. But they don't mix, or should I say that they don't mix well in this story. This was pretty dreadful, badly written compared to her other works that I have read. But mainly, it is a really really stupid story. Nothing makes sense, which drove me nuts. The city burns and glowing embers fall from the sky. The main character gets them in her eyes and is burned, it damages her vision. But nothing else is burned, not her hair, clothes, skin, house... And the embers remain in her eyes and somehow continue to burn her as she goes about doing everyday things... Does that make any sense? NO. Her vision is described as being damaged and her eyes are bleeding, but she can see things that happen in the distance, no problem. She trades pearls and jewellery for food and seeds near the ruined town, but there is no explanation why people there have food in abundance to trade for useless things or where that food comes from. She takes in a stray boy who wears a hood pulled up to cover his face. A hood - not a mask. He lives there for a while (weeks? months?) and they do chores together and he keeps his hood up and that somehow prevents her from even getting a glimpse of his face, even in daylight. I'm sorry but this story has no inner logic. The characters do things because it look good on paper, like poetry, not because it makes any sense for them to do it. Like when the main character sews rose thorns into her clothes to make a sort of goth statement/makeshift armour. Never mind how one would ever be able to practically go about sewing thorns into a scarf; what would rose thorns accomplish? The details that would lend some credibility to the story are glossed over in one or two sentences. Of course this isn't meant to be a realistic story: but there still needs to be inner logic. A story doesn't have to make sense in relation to reality, but the events in a story must make sense in relation to the story they are in. In this story, nothing makes sense.(less)

2 likes · like · see review

Aug 29, 2012 Larissa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: own

Green Angel is a beautiful, tender and heartfelt story of a girl who lost everything and everyone she loved, and then she lost herself. This is the story of the dreams of the past that haunted her, the lives of those touched by her and all that she gave up and found once again.

Green Witch is an enchanting story of magic, love and witches. When so much of the past was lost all that was left were the memories of what had been. Learning to live again, to love again, was the only hope for a future,...more

like · see review

Aug 22, 2012 Kelly rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was truly one of the most beautiful YA novels I've had the pleasure to read in a very, very long time. Hoffman's writing style is lyrical, poetic, and even somewhat haunting. It's the kind of story that slowly meanders it's way through your heart, wending and winding to touch you unexpectedly. Her writing style reminded me a little of Susan Fletcher's Corrag, which I found to be really beautiful too. Granted, this particular type of writing will not be everyone's cup of tea; some may find i...more This was truly one of the most beautiful YA novels I've had the pleasure to read in a very, very long time. Hoffman's writing style is lyrical, poetic, and even somewhat haunting. It's the kind of story that slowly meanders it's way through your heart, wending and winding to touch you unexpectedly. Her writing style reminded me a little of Susan Fletcher's Corrag, which I found to be really beautiful too. Granted, this particular type of writing will not be everyone's cup of tea; some may find it too poetic (is there even such a thing??) with a storyline that takes it's time to get anywhere. But me: I liked it that I had the time to savour each sentence and phrase that helped me almost become Green; I liked letting myself be hypnotised by the lyrical language, being led deeper and deeper into her dreamscape of somewhat folk-tale proportions.

Fifteen-year-old Green is orphaned when her family is killed by a fire that devastates the entire city. Green Angel is the story of her coming to terms with her loss in the wake of her ruined home: through the animals she slowly nurses back to health, and the silent Diamond, a mysterious boy who turns up at her door one night, to whom she has given her heart. Green Witch is a story in which Green learns about love, as she waits for her beloved Diamond who has gone to search for his family to come back to her. Along her journey, she encounters a few witches - who turn out to be wise women who have lost much in the fire and have much to teach her about love.

If Green Angel is about coping with loss, Green Witch must be about knowing love. These two heavy lessons are subtly woven into the folkloric tale. Overly didactic and preachy it is not though, and Hoffman does a splendid job of handling such deep and profound subject matter in a manner that would make the more discerning teen think deeper past all the angst, and the adult ponder at the (oxymoronically) deeply simplistic essence of these two tough topics.

That's not to say that Hoffman's presentation of loss, love and ultimately, hope, is as straightforward as differentiating black from white, but rather she took me on a lush discovery through Green's eyes, and I learnt as she learnt. I felt that the text was rife with symbolism, each element meaning so much more than what it appears on the surface. For example, each witch that we were introduced to in Green Witch was an embodiment of a certain aspect of love - which made it all the more meaningful to me, since I've witnessed Green's journey of self-discovery and I've been touched too, by the encounter. I'll admit that this book tugged at my heart strings, almost moving me to tears several times with its innocent profundity and sheer loveliness.

The only tiny thing that kept me from rating this book a full 5 out of 5 was the character development of Green. Yes, I enjoyed seeing through her eyes and just being her, spending time in her enchanted, devastated world, so much so that I wished I could have spent more time with her.

This is totally a non-conventional dystopian and coming-of-age piece of literature, but it's an absolute joy to read and I would recommend this book to anyone with a niggling desire to grapple with the tougher things in life and a couple of hours to spare. Also, for anyone who has dreamt and wants to keep dreaming, because I felt like I had just woken up from an achingly lovely dream when I'd gotten to the end of the book.

“I dreamed of vines and grass, apples and emeralds, rain and white night-flowers that bloomed with white centres. I dreamed of everything I’d lost and all that I’d found and everything in between.” - p.111
(less)

like · see review

Jul 28, 2012 Aria rated it 5 of 5 stars

Review can also be found here.

Green Heart by Alice Hoffman is actually two books; Green Angel and Green Witch, put into one. This book made me breathless when I read it. The writing is realistic. It is simple yet complex—which had me confused at the beginning for a moment—and it is also very beautiful like poetry but far better.

I agree with what Booklist has said about Alice Hoffman. She certainly writes in a lyrical, stripped-down poetic way that distills both magic and elemental experience int...more

1 like · like · see review

Mar 28, 2012 Brittany Rehage rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Green Heart is two books in one. The first book is Green Angel, the second is Green Witch. I thought about trying to write this review without separating the two, but that wasn't working. They are two very different stories wrapped up in one another and it's lovely.

The first, Green Angel is about Green's journey through loss and grief and finding herself again. She loses her entire family in a horrible, devastating way. She crumbles and has to put herself together again. She feels guilty, regret...more
Green Heart is two books in one. The first book is Green Angel, the second is Green Witch. I thought about trying to write this review without separating the two, but that wasn't working. They are two very different stories wrapped up in one another and it's lovely.

The first, Green Angel is about Green's journey through loss and grief and finding herself again. She loses her entire family in a horrible, devastating way. She crumbles and has to put herself together again. She feels guilty, regretful and, of course, extremely sad and upset. She has to rebuild her life without those she loved most, but she ends up finding comfort in new people. The neighbor she and her sister stole apples from, the girl from her school that was never really her friend, the boy survivor that stumbles into her life and holds her heart.

It's a short story, but incredibly moving and hopeful. The way the story is written leaves much to the imagination, and yet you aren't left trying to figure things out. It's all laid out, waiting for you to read and put together. It's dark and yet there's light that keeps shining through with every page. I absolutely loved it.

Green Witch is the continuation of Green Angel and is more about Green finding herself again and finding the reason people fall in love. She's looking for something as she visits the houses of neighbors the village people consider "witches;" those that can look past the ugly and have something to give the world. They help Green as she searches for the boy she fell in love with and the girl that became her friend. With the help of these women, she's able to find out that she's stronger than she thought; she has a special power from within herself that people wish they could have. They turn to her for help and to help them find hope again.

Green Witch is another story of a journey, but this one is about finding your strength and who you are. It's about love and what love is worth. Everyone has a different answer for how to measure love and it was beautiful to read how each woman viewed the love they had lost. It was both heartbreaking and empowering.

Green Heart is a simply breathtaking book that opens pieces of your soul and makes you feel. It's a book that, while short, has an impact. The lyrical way it was written made it all the better. This is definitely a book people should read if they want something that will leave them feeling uplifted and refreshed.
(less)

like · see review

Apr 29, 2012 Miki rated it 3 of 5 stars

Again - one of those books I'd probably give 3.5 stars to, if we could do fractions. This is clearly Hoffman's post-9/11. Green, a 15-yr old girl loses her family in a cataclysmic event in The City and must rebuild her life and rediscover her purpose and identity. The writing is spare and elegant, with parts that are nearly like lines from a poem, meditating on life, loss and love. I found her depiction of The Horde (the group that caused the explosion/devastation) uncomfortably skirting close t...more

like · see review

Feb 08, 2012 Jennifer Rayment rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Good Stuff

The writing is absolutely beautiful and lyrical as with most of Hoffman's works
Descriptions of grief are so honest and realistic
Fabulous character development especially for Green
A nice message of hope and being able to make it through the grief of losing so much
Hauntingly beautiful
Unique take on the whole dystopian / post apocolyptic (people please simply explain the difference to me) genre - honestly I was imagining a 9/11 sort of devestation had happened
Thinly veiled disgust fo...more

1 like · like · see review

Sep 17, 2012 Dianais rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012

I was very enthusiastic about this book since I like the author very much. I was however slightly disappointed. Although the story is interesting, it seems to me that it lacks substance and I felt like it was unfinished. I was of course fascinated by the magical details and the author's style and writing is perfect as expected. But I would have loved a more elaborate story, more details, just...more. The story would have benefited from a more elaborate plot and action.
It is however a young-adult...more

1 like · like · see review

Feb 26, 2012 Michele Harrod rated it 5 of 5 stars

As I am an avid Hoffman fan, I thought I would check out some of her YA novels as well. Needless to say, I was in no way disappointed. Green Heart is a combination of Green Angel (written in 2003) and Green Witch (2010) following the life of Green after a disaster (somewhat unspecific beyond a 'fire in the city'). This novel takes you through the grief process of Green herself, many of her neighbours, and injured animals left behind in the aftermath of this tragedy. As usual her rhetoric simply...more

3 likes · like · see review

Feb 29, 2012 Jessica Fortunato rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book, a stunning conclusion to Green Angel, combines Green Angel with Green Witch resulting in Green Heart.

The book is beyond touching, and riddled with the magic that is love, and life itself.

For Green, traveling the town and writing down people's stories is her mission, especially the stories of the so called Witches in her village. She fights to preserve a life that otherwise has been demolished. To tell the stories of the people who are ridiculed the most, yet carry the most wisdom.

Ali...more

like · see review

Feb 04, 2013 Shannonb_n_az rated it 4 of 5 stars

I checked this book out based on a short review through the Library. Though an adult by law, I still enjoy reading from the Young Adult genre(i.e. Hunger Games, Matched, Harry Potter). This quick read did not disappoint. The book speaks of magic, but it isn't in a "spells, potions and incantations" sort of way, but in a hearts and feelings sort of way. I read it as a story of loss, grief, recovery, and healing. I loved the writing, and the growth of the story. It truly is a fairy tale in a moder...more

like · see review

Jul 11, 2012 Alena rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was two books in one, both very short, and worth the read. I liked the first book better than the second. The first book was like a poem and a fairytale wrapped into one. It was sad and haunting, uplifting, moving and beautiful. I personally didn't feel like the continued story/wrap-up of the plot in book two was necessary, and it didn't have the same impact on me as the first one, but I didn't dislike it either. There were still some lovely things, like how she made her own paper to write...more

like · see review

Apr 03, 2012 kari rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, ya

While I liked the overall story here, I wish it had been fleshed out much more than it is. There is little to no dialogue and most of the story is what Green/Ash does, thinks, feels. I felt disconnected from this story, not sure why. Maybe because Green feels that way, but then again, in the second half, she is connecting with the world and I still didn't feel anything.
The writing is beautiful, but almost too sparse. There are magical elements to the story which were well woven into the plot.
It...more

1 like · like · see review

May 27, 2012 Rebecca rated it 5 of 5 stars

In Green Heart Alice Hoffman is at her magical best. This fantasy delves into the harsh truths of ignorance and hatred, of the healing power of love of others as well as of one's self. To me it is a barely veiled story of the destructive power of blind religious hatred of all things different. It brings to mind the mindless acts of suicide bombers and religious leaders who imprison, maim and murder those who do not submit and blindly follow. Yet she shows these forces can be overcome by the simp...more

like · see review

Apr 22, 2012 Holly rated it 4 of 5 stars

I knew nothing about this book before I began reading it. I learned it is two books in one. The first book, Green Angel, is about Green's journey through grief and finding herself again. She loses her whole family one awful day and she has to rebuild her life without those she loves most.

Green Witch is another journey, but one about finding your strength and figuring out who you are. There are little sub-stories about each woman who talks about the love they had lost.

This book was wonderful --...more

like · see review

Oct 23, 2012 Monique rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Females of all ages

Shelves: adventure, heart-and-mind

When fifteen-year-old Green’s family go out to the city and are nowhere to be found after a fire set the city alight, she learns to become an independent young woman, who eventually discovers herself in ways she never knew after a journey of meeting some peculiar people, realising how much her family mean to her and realising what the true meaning of love is. And for Green now, her calling is to write down the stories of the people of the village, fight to keep the memories that would have disap...more

1 like · like · see review

Mar 31, 2012 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a story about magic, about the physical and emotional manifestations of grief and healing, about war and peace, love and loss. This was a spare, poetic story with rich emotion and language, and I enjoyed it for the beauty of it. Some of its imagery will definitely stay with me, though the story itself may or may not, I'm not sure about that.

I'd recommend to to Francesca Lia Block fans, obviously Alice Hoffman fans, and fans of the verse novel (this isn't a verse novel, but it feels like...more

1 like · like · see review

Jul 17, 2012 Kim rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012

When I was in middle school I read the first half of this book, Green Angel, and it was one of the most beautiful books I had ever encountered, and I'm happy to find that it is still as wonderful as I remembered. The second half of the book, Green Heart, is still beautiful, but I'm not sure how I sit with it. In many ways Angel was great as a stand alone book, but that isn't to say that Heart shouldn't have been written. In it's own way it is great, and it discusses new themes not shown in the f...more

like · see review

Apr 12, 2012 Lauren rated it 4 of 5 stars

I won this book in a goodreads giveaway.

To be honest, I didn't expect much out of this book. The cover was cheesy, the type font was huge, and it was obviously meant for a much younger reader. However, I am so very glad that I gave it a chance- this novel definitely deserved it.

Green Heart was originally published as two separate novels titled Green Angel and Green Witch. It tells the story of a teenage girl who lost her entire family along with everything familiar about her world in a tragic fi...more

like · see review

Jun 12, 2012 Victor Carson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Green Heart is really two short novels, one written in 2003 and the other in 2010, as a sequel. These two books are unlike any of the other novels by Alice Hoffman that I have read. Ms. Hoffman is one of my favorite authors, and I have read more than a dozen of her books. The setting for this two-part story is post-apocalyptic, or, perhaps, just post-September 11. A city, if not the whole country, has been heavily destroyed by fires set by people who came down out of the mountains to destroy our...more

like · see review

Jan 16, 2013 Maryanne Balles Grabo rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: dystopian, fantasy-fiction, young-adult, adventure

Green Heart
Two Novels: Green Angel and Green Witch by Alice Hoffman

I received this book as a winning in a Goodreads give-away. It really caught my attention, so I took the chance and entered my name. This is the first book I have ever won!

This is why I read it: The synopsis drew me in right away; a struggling fifteen-year-old girl left on her own after her family dies in a terrible disaster. She retreats into the ruined realm of her garden. She searches for the truth about love, hope and magic....more Green Heart
Two Novels: Green Angel and Green Witch by Alice Hoffman

I received this book as a winning in a Goodreads give-away. It really caught my attention, so I took the chance and entered my name. This is the first book I have ever won!

This is why I read it: The synopsis drew me in right away; a struggling fifteen-year-old girl left on her own after her family dies in a terrible disaster. She retreats into the ruined realm of her garden. She searches for the truth about love, hope and magic.

Right there…”magic” that is what caught my eye.

This is how I read it: Each and every moment I could find in these past few busy weeks, I grabbed the book, claimed my favorite corner of the couch and read. Most could probably devour this book in one sitting. I am not a fast reader, but believe me, it is worthy of a one-sit read.

This is how it made me feel: Alice Hoffman brought out a lot of feelings for me as the reader. Without giving away anything, I can tell you I felt fear, anger and a great deal of hope and renewal. I guess what I was feeling was exactly what Green found and was searching for after losing her family.

The fantastical parts of the story may not ever come to be, however I was thoroughly entertained. I found myself equating the “terrible day” to terrorism, and other acts of war. This made me search my thoughts on what I think I may be capable of should such a terrible day affect me. I wonder…would I be brave, thoughtful, and as resourceful as Green. Would I give up and go to the forgetting shack? Would I give in and join the Horde? Am I even educated enough to be prepared? Am I a product of a “consumer driven” society that is far removed from “creating” and therefore would not succeed as Green had? I know I am not ready to find this out just yet, but…I am ready to read more by Alice Hoffman. She brought the characters to life allowing me to visualize so many details. Her story telling is unique and fun.

This is what I recommend: If you like a mix of everything; adventure, romance, a little sci-fi futuristic fantasy, with some life lessons, then I recommend Green Heart.
(less)

like · see review

May 02, 2012 Kristi rated it 4 of 5 stars

At first I couldn't get into this book and kept urging myself to read it, but as I went along I actually really started to enjoy it. The wording and scenery is like a Grimm fairy tale.
A very different YA dystopian novel but enjoyable none-the-less.
I think if I could give this 3.5 stars that would be a better fit.
The ending is done rather quickly and much too smoothly for all of the buildup, so that was a little disappointing, but it also made the book the perfect length and a quick read.

like · see review

Mar 01, 2012 Warren rated it 5 of 5 stars

Green was not with her family when the disaster hit. She was at home tending the garden. Ash is everywhere. She is scared and sad and doesn't want to do anything. She gradually starts to live again. She find a stray Greyhound, two fledgling sparrows, a lost boy she names Dimond. She builds three monuments for her mother, her father, and her sister Aurora. A very compelling, eloquent story filled with grief, hope, loss, and survival and told as only Alice Hoffman can tell.

like · see review

Jan 20, 2013 Alicia rated it 4 of 5 stars

These two books are both beautifully written with rich, descriptive words. The first has a great story line for someone who never really strays from where her home is. I love how descriptive Green is towards her family, mainly her younger sister, Aurora. Throughout the first book, it is very easy to comprehend how deep her despair is, and how greatly connected she is to her beloved garden.

Throughout the second book, the author starts to create a more poetic way of telling the story. This time wh...more

1 like · like · see review

Feb 07, 2013 Jean Kelly rated it 5 of 5 stars

Just a delightful fantasy of a girl named Green who is the sole survivor when Hordes destroy the city where her parents and sister had gone to sell vegetables from their village garden. This is a story of love,magic, warmth. My favorite part was that when Green is making paper from scratch so she can collect the survivors stories she makes it of things that are special to bring out the individual's story.
A fun book with a real message about love and community.

like · see review

Dec 27, 2012 Evelyn rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-13-winter, fantasy, science-fiction

Read this on a whim. Lovely, lyrical writing. The ending did not satisfy me (view spoiler)

like · see review

Apr 14, 2012 Aubrey rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: heroines

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.

like · see review

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 99 100 next »

new topic
Discuss This Book

There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Be the first to start one »

Recommend it | Stats | Recent status updates

combine
Other Editions (3)

Genres

Young Adult

35 users

Fantasy

30 users

Science Fiction > Dystopia

11 users

Apocalyptic > Post Apocalyptic

7 users

Fantasy > Magic

6 users

Magical Realism

5 users

Young Adult > Young Adult Fantasy

3 users

Science Fiction Fantasy

2 users

Adventure

2 users

Science Fiction

2 users

See top shelves...

Readers also enjoyed similar books

About Alice Hoffman

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...more 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 Ted Solotaroff then contacted her to ask if she had a novel, at which point she quickly began to write what was to become PROPERTY OF, a section of which was published in Mr. Solotaroff’s magazine, American Review.

Since that remarkable beginning, Alice Hoffman has become one of our most distinguished novelists. She has published a total of sixteen novels, two books of short fiction, and eight books for children and young adults. Her novel, HERE ON EARTH, an Oprah Book Club choice, was a modern reworking of some of the themes of Emily Bronte’s masterpiece Wuthering Heights. PRACTICAL MAGIC was made into a Warner film starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. Her novel, AT RISK, which concerns a family dealing with AIDS, can be found on the reading lists of many universities, colleges and secondary schools. Hoffman’s advance from LOCAL GIRLS, a collection of inter-related fictions about love and loss on Long Island, was donated to help create the Hoffman Breast Center at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA. BLACKBIRD HOUSE is a book of stories centering around an old farm on Cape Cod. Hoffman's recent books include AQUARMARINE and INDIGO, novels for pre-teens, and The New York Times bestsellers THE RIVER KING, BLUE DIARY, THE PROBABLE FUTURE, and THE ICE QUEEN. GREEN ANGEL, a post-apocalyptic fairy tale about loss and love, was published by Scholastic and THE FORETELLING, a book about an Amazon girl in the Bronze Age, was published by Little Brown. This fall Little Brown published the teen novel INCANTATION, a story about hidden Jews during the Spanish Inquisition, which Publishers Weekly has chosen as one of the best books of the year. In January 2007, SKYLIGHT CONFESSIONS, a novel about one family’s secret history, was released on the 30th anniversary of the publication of Hoffman’s first novel.

Hoffman’s work has been published in more than twenty translations and more than one hundred foreign editions. Her novels have received mention as notable books of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, Library Journal, and People Magazine. She has also worked as a screenwriter and is the author of the original screenplay “Independence Day,” a film starring Kathleen Quinlan and Diane Weist. Her short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, Kenyon Review, Redbook, Architectural Digest, Gourmet, Self, and other magazines. Her teen novel AQUAMARINE was recently made into a film starring Emma Roberts.
(less)

More about Alice Hoffman...

Books by Alice Hoffman

More…

Share This Book

Facebook Twitter Your website

Trivia About Green Heart

No trivia or quizzes yet. Add some now »

Quotes from Green Heart

“She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.” — 5 people liked it

“The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.” — 3 people liked it

More quotes…

title link	preview: Green Heart
avg rating	preview: Green Heart Goodreads rating: 3.85 (552 ratings)
small image	preview: click here [close]
med image	preview: click here [close]
BBCode	[url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12463444-green-heart?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book][img]http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328018739l/12463444.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12463444-green-heart?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book]Green Heart by Alice Hoffman[/url]

Green Heart (Green Angel #1-2)

Friend Reviews

Community Reviews

Share This Book

Share This Book on Your Website