false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178683805m/821964.jpg 821964 13 With "incantatory prose" that "sweeps over the reader like a dream," (<i>Philadelphia Inquirer)</i>, Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller <i>The Probable Future</i>, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years. In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet: Violet, a brilliant girl who is in love with books and with a man destined to betray her; Lysander Wynn, attacked by a halibut as big as a horse, certain that his life is ruined until a boarder wearing red boots arrives to change everything; Maya Cooper, who does not understand the true meaning of the love between her mother and father until it is nearly too late. From the time of the British occupation of Massachusetts to our own modern world, family after family's lives are inexorably changed, not only by the people they love but by the lives they lead inside Blackbird House. These interconnected narratives are as intelligent as they are haunting, as luminous as they are unusual. Inside Blackbird House more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives. The past both dissipates and remains contained inside the rooms of Blackbird House, where there are terrible secrets, inspired beauty, and, above all else, a spirit of coming home. From the writer <i>Time</i> has said tells "truths powerful enough to break a reader's heart" comes a glorious travelogue through time and fate, through loss and love and survival. Welcome to Blackbird House. 1744187 book 2004 Blackbird House total:1439|5:319|4:553|3:438|2:115|1:14| 1439 5365 1974 165 4 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 16 18:26:23 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 12 20:47:24 -0800 2007
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If I were her editor, I would have told her to write fewer vignettes and elaborate on the ones she decided to keep. Each of the stories contains vivid...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 14:41:41 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 14:41:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 20:45:05 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 10:28:57 -0700 2009
Whether it is men and boys lost at sea or promising young people snuffed out in traffic accidents or a woman who takes matters into her own hands toward an abu...more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Feb 05 09:27:24 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:27:24 -0800 2009 Hoffman is fond of symbols. If you share this fondness, you may appreciate the magic of Blackbird House, where birds, flowers, and colors become links to the past and omens of the future. If, however, such devices leave you cold—and particularly if you like your fiction unpredictable—you may fin...

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