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Here on Earth

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The bestselling author of The Dovekeepers tells her most seductive and mesmerizing tale yet--the story of March Murray, who returns to her small Massachusetts hometown after nineteen years, encountering her childhood sweetheart...and discovering the heartbreaking and complex truth about their reckless and romantic love.

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Published July 1st 1999 by Berkley (first published 1997)

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Sep 18, 2012 Mary Regan rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

I am listening to this book, unabridged, on audio and I can barely stand it. And it is such a rip-off of Wuthering Heights- but a poor imitation. I cannot picture Lawrence Olivier in the role of Hollis, who is a complete numbskull as far as I can tell.

Everything about the story is so predictable and trite, including the endless metaphors. I nearly tossed my i-phone in the trash at Grand Central tonight. But I just want to find out a few things:

1. if the two first cousins (children, who no one se...more

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Sep 09, 2008 Joe Mossa rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

i may have become a snob after reading so many important books in the past three years,but this writing is terrible. if i were to count the cliches hoffman uses ,i wouldn t be able to follow the narrative. after i read that she was imitating WURTHERING HEIGHTS, i decided i had a duty to finish the book which i had thrown down in disgust after reading page 213. read my other posts to see what happened there. charles dickens got away with melodrama so i guess we can excuse a contemporary writer f...more

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Apr 09, 2008 Zoe B rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Loved, loved, loved, LOVED it!!!! Ok so if this book was food, it would be a hot fudge brownie with caramel sauce - really, really good, at first comforting, but then it makes you kind of sick. Now this isn't a book for everyone, not everyone can stomach so much passion and long lost love. I, on the other hand, could ingest this stuff until the cows come home - and no sweet has ever been too much for me (cotton candy - bring it on! Candy apples - bring em on!).

I was immediately whisked away and...more

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Jul 30, 2007 Janice rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm technically not even done reading this book yet and I'm seething with hate for it. Seething!!

The entire plot of this book is that love gives you license to be selfish, irresponsible and act like a jerk. I hate the two main characters SO MUCH. They deserve everything that happens to them. I can see the conclusion coming a mile away as well. It's taking everything I have to finish it.

Oprah - you got this one SO wrong!

Awful. Don't bother.

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Jan 04, 2009 Judy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: female-author

This is a dark romance. A woman goes back to her home town for a funeral, taking her teenage daughter with her. The woman comes back into contact with an old lover who had a strange hold over her when she was younger. It's an oddly compelling story.

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Nov 10, 2008 June rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to June by: Elissa

Shelves: romance

This was a quick read for me. A scary portrayal of infatuation, fear and love. A sad portrayal of what happens when someone loves 2 people. I really like the character, Gwen - I thought she was a great representative for teenagers.

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Jul 13, 2008 Ellen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Okay... can I just say... "Wow. Wow. Wow."

Alice Hoffman really makes me happy. She's full of fanciful quirk -- not the harsh, dry quirk of carefully selected oddness, but a more delightful whimsy that seems to spring straight from the emotional side of nature.

This book really won my heart, even though the ending was contrived and lacking in climax, which honestly, I'd half-expected since this book falls somewhere under the mainstream/literary spectrum. Okay, okay -- I saw her setting the climax...more

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Nov 13, 2007 Amanda rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Literary Lovers/ Hoffman fans

What I've learned from this book: that if you read enough Alice Hoffman, you eventually get so used to her writing that you can't put her books down. Now that might just be a generality, but after a few hits and misses, I've really enjoyed her last three books and this one, much like "The Ice Queen," was really fantastic.

March returns to her hometown to mourn the death of a woman she and many others held dear. But she also returns to a world in which, as a young girl, she was immersed into a lo...more

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Nov 02, 2007 Yvette rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: dysfunctional-families-fiction

Hoffman did a wonderful job in writing this book. The characters have a lot of depth and are brought to life with her vivid words. Her writing style in this book is very descriptive and sometimes poetic. The way she describes love is so profound, it’s not the sort of description that is lengthy and you want to just skim over, no, it’s lyrical and holds your interest.

Now, the characters, hmmmm, where to begin? They are so real and my distaste for March and my strong dislike for Hollis are also r...more

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Dec 09, 2008 Alayna rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Parts of this book were very good - it sort of wraps you into this small town, nostalgic way of life, that I really appreciated. It was good to read now, at the end of October/November as things get cold, since the FALL and WINTER weather actually really comes alive for her.

I just am not convinced, can I say that...I didn't really like the turns the characters took, and I didn't really feel the characterization very much. They were more stereotyped and superficial than I could fully get behind....more

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Jul 24, 2007 Nikita T. Mitchell rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: forever-faves

I must say that I am in love with this book. It has made it to the top of my must read list (for others of course). I have read a lot of reviews online of the book - there are tons since it was an Oprah Book Club selection. I realized that many comparisons are made between this book and Wuthering Heights by Emile Brontë. Let me just say that I read it in highschool and strongly disliked it - its not nice to say hated, you know. I must admit it seems like Hoffman stole some of her basic plot from...more

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Jun 13, 2007 Charity rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Alice Hoffman has written a new version of Wuthering Heights, this time set in a remote, modern day New England village. Hollis is the dark-eyed orphan heartthrob brought into the Murray household. March is the spitfire who falls insanely in love with Hollis (and he returns the favor). Alan is March's slimy brother who persecutes Hollis. By and large, Hoffman follows the original plot faithfully, but it is her own lyrical prose which puts a pleasant spin on Brontë's dark tale of obsessive love....more

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Dec 26, 2008 Anita rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Although this is a good read, it is a somewhat odd book. It deals the underside of "love" - in this case, obsession, control and abuse. This is the mother's story. The daughter's story deals with redemptive of qualities of love. And other supporting characters demonstrate other sides of love: selfless love, forbidden love and disappointed love. As I write this, I realize I should have liked this book much more than I did, given the themes. The problem may be that the primary character - the moth...more

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Jan 04, 2010 Karen Powell added it · review of another edition

Horrible novel- how'd it make it on Oprah's list? Hoffman spent so much time trying to align the plot to "Wuthering Heights" that she forgot to be original and make the story her own. The result is a perversion of Emily Bronte's tale that completely misses the point. [return][return]March travels back to her hometown with her teen daughter Gwen for the funeral of her Nelly Dean-esque housekeeper. There, she meets up with Hollis, her childhood love that got away. The renew their love, but Hollis...more Horrible novel- how'd it make it on Oprah's list? Hoffman spent so much time trying to align the plot to "Wuthering Heights" that she forgot to be original and make the story her own. The result is a perversion of Emily Bronte's tale that completely misses the point. [return][return]March travels back to her hometown with her teen daughter Gwen for the funeral of her Nelly Dean-esque housekeeper. There, she meets up with Hollis, her childhood love that got away. The renew their love, but Hollis is bent on revenge and abuses her physically, emotionally, and sexually. Meanwhile Gwen finds romance with her Hareton, and all find themselves caught in Hollis' sick trap. There is no redemption for any of the characters; the survivors are only lucky to have escaped -- a denouement with the character development worthy of a Vincent Price film.[return][return]Hoffman just doesn't get it- what makes the reader fall for Heathcliff despite his tyrannical ways is his undying passion for Catherine. He can abuse Isabella and trap young Catherine Linton into a loveless marriage, but the sheer force of his passion for his Catherine blows it all away. Hollis has no such passion for March. He is only fueled on revenge. Besides the physical abuse, Hollis cheats on March once he has her, completely disregarding any notion that he may actually love or feel passion for her. Hoffman seems to have confused passion with rape. Their romantic scenes read like the worse bodice ripper. To complete the characterization of Hollis, Hoffman should have given him a long Snidely Whiplash mustache to twirl.[return] [return]Instead of spending so much time trying to get the characters to fit their "Wuthering Heights" mold so closely, Hoffman should have instead used the novel as a guide for exploring the relationships in her story. A more talented author could have made the distinction between healthy love and obsessive love without playing a game of "How perverted can I make this guy?" In fact, a more talented author did, and Hoffman was way over her head meddling with Bronte. As is, her treatment of March, and March's acceptance of it, is downright misogynistic and Hoffman should have known better, as should have Oprah.(less)

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Feb 27, 2013 Nranger7 rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I hated this book when I started it, but it became hard for me to put down. It's a dark novel and I wasn't sympathetic to many of the characters. I'm glad I stuck with it, though. Even after finishing the book, I'm still thinking about the story and the characters.

I didn't like the main character, March, (which always makes a book difficult to get through) but the story had a bunch of questions and I kept reading to get the answers. Some questions (for me at least) never were answered which is...more

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Dec 16, 2012 Chy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Okay, so the impression I get is Hoffman wanted to take as many parallels of Wuthering Heights as she could in modern times, and then do a, and then if this had happend sort of thing.

But y'all, one of the reasons books like Wuthering Heights are so spectacular is that you don't need anyone to tell you what would have happened if some particular part of the story went along a different line. The story is so well written, the characters so well defined, that if you have a "what if" question like t...more

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Nov 08, 2012 R.S. Lentin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Storm Sandy allowed me to pick up a book to get lost in. Well, with the electricity out and the high winds blowing, I needed a quick distraction. With my trusty book light and a few candles, I scanned my bookshelves for a fast read. Dean Koontz, no. Fast read, yes, but not on a stormy night. Grisham, no. Too much like work for me (lawyers). Stephen King, absolutely not. On a bottom shelf, I saw Here on Earth, and not having read Alice Hoffman in years, decided to give it a try.

I immediately dov...more

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Nov 04, 2012 Lynne Christensen rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

WARNING! SPOILER IN 2ND PARAGRAPH

I have to agree with the previous review, a total rip off of Wuthering Heights but not nearly as good. This is flat our plagarism as far as I am concerned. Has the publisher never heard of Wuthering Heights? Obviously the author has, since her story is almost an exact copy but set in the present time.

Hollis is a complete jerk and I was actually happy when he died at the end. Only problem is that he should have died earlier and I was hoping MArch would die too.

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Feb 18, 2012 Delores rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

This story is not a feel good story. It isn't romantic or sappy. The characters have serious flaws and many of them are unlikeable. However, the book was a compelling read about love. The good, the bad, and the ugly sides of love. Its about the depths a person will go to, or the things a person will forsake, ignore, or settle for in the name of love or what they believe is love. This novel portrays a rather dark side of love that borders on an obsession or a sickness in the case of Hollis and Ma...more

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Oct 30, 2011 Weng Tan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I really like Alice Hoffman's dark storytelling. However, this book is very similar to Wuthering Heights (maybe one of her favorites..?) so you can basically guess the flow of the story.

But before you write this off, I just want to say that Hoffman's writing never seem to fail drawing readers in. Here on Earth tells the story of obsession and possessive love. It shows us a glimpse of the dark side of a relationship between a troubled boy(Hollis) who've been living his life awry and the girl(Marc...more

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Sep 18, 2011 Alex Wells rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mythic-fiction, dark-romance

I'm a big fan of Alice Hoffman, especially when her books veer into the magical or the mythic, in books like Practical Magic or the Ice Queen. But even when her characters aren't blatantly magical, her stories have a mythic, and even allegorical quality, that I love. This is true of Here On Earth, which is the Bluebeardian story of a woman who comes back home and revisits the desperate love affair of her childhood.

This book gives the first impression of being a romance, but it doesn't take long...more

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Sep 08, 2011 Jaci rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Definitely a relationship book, looking at obsession and jealousy as well as the relationships between parents and children. Very dark in places.
p.81: "Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves, with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold."
p.131: "You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Wh...more

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Sep 01, 2011 Melissa rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Congrats Here on Earth, you win the title of my leave favorite book of all time. Never in my life have I loathed a book so much. We are reading this book for my book club this month, and from the start I was skeptical. You know I love Oprah, but one thing I know for sure is that we do not have the same taste in books. Oprah picked this book as her book club pick back in 1998 and I honestly don't know what she was thinking. The book itself is written beautifully - I mean thank goodness - because...more

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Apr 06, 2011 Virginia rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This quite possibly rates the worst book I have ever read. The characters range from stupid to hedonistic The only reason I finished was that I hated the main character so much, I was hoping to read of his undoing. I did briefly believe that either the friend Susie or the daughter Gwen would make this a much more enjoyable book by putting Hollis in his place, but alas that happens quite anti-climatically with him destroying himself, and they end the book not as near as strong characters as could...more

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Feb 17, 2011 Shannon rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The great author Alice Hoffman has yet again accomplished another book. This book is more serious and hurtful to the reader. When reading you tie up many emotions inside you. For an author to console these emotions in a reader is quite remarkable. I would not say this is one of her most delightful reads and or her best. However, it can reach a person on a personal level that will appeal to them.
This book is full of a hurtful past and a hurtful future as well. This one rollercoaster of lifes t...more

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Feb 11, 2011 Megan rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Megan by: Amy G

Shelves: 20th-century-fiction

Good but dark read....

In a review of Hoffman s previous novel, Practical Magic, Booklist wrote, "magic, fantasy, and full-tilt love-at-first-sight have figured in all of Hoffman s sexy, funny, and endearing novels in Hoffman s universe, all boundaries between inner and outer realms are erased. Fear brings whipping winds, a malevolent spirit causes lilac bushes to achieve monstrous proportions, and love turns the air sweet and golden, melts butter, and makes everyone giddy." In Here on Earth, the...more Good but dark read....

In a review of Hoffman s previous novel, Practical Magic, Booklist wrote, "magic, fantasy, and full-tilt love-at-first-sight have figured in all of Hoffman s sexy, funny, and endearing novels in Hoffman s universe, all boundaries between inner and outer realms are erased. Fear brings whipping winds, a malevolent spirit causes lilac bushes to achieve monstrous proportions, and love turns the air sweet and golden, melts butter, and makes everyone giddy." In Here on Earth, the darker, obsessive side of love is revealed in all of its power, and with all the havoc it wreaks.
After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, returns to the sleepy Massachusetts town where she grew up to attend the funeral of Judith Dale, the beloved housekeeper who raised her. Yet returning to her hometown also brings her back to Hollis, March s former soul mate and lover. March s father had taken the teenaged Hollis, an abandoned child, and the product of a series of detention homes, into his house as a boarder, and treated him like a son. Yet March and Hollis s passionate love was hardly a normal sibling relationship. When Hollis left her after a petty fight, March waited for him three long years, wondering what she had done wrong.

Encountering Hollis again makes March acutely aware of the choices that she has made, and the choices everyone around her has made including Mrs. Dale, who knew more of love than March could ever have suspected, and her brother Alan, whose tragic history has left him grief-struck, with alcohol as his only solace. Her attraction to Hollis is overwhelming and March jeopardizes her marriage, her relationship with her daughter and her own happiness in an attempt to reclaim the past.

"Hoffman conveys the mesmerizing lure of a lost love with haunting sensuality," Publishers Weekly, said in an advance review and Library Journal said: "Hoffman takes great care here to examine the many facets of love and relationships, turning them like a prism to reflect on March and Hollis."

With Here on Earth , Alice Hoffman achieves once again the "iridescent prose, taut narrative suspense and alluring atmosphere" that The Boston Globe cites as her hallmark. Erotic, disturbing and compelling, this is without a doubt Alice Hoffman s most unforgettable novel. (from posting)

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Dec 30, 2010 Bookworm rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Here on Earth is one of those books that I enjoyed reading but disliked most of the characters within the story. It is also reminiscent of Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

March Murray returns to her hometown in New England with her fifteen year old daughter Gwen. Her childhood housekeeper and nanny Judith, has passed away and March comes back to her hometown for the funeral and to get Judith's affairs in order. March's scientist husband Richard, who is from the same hometown, stays behind in Califor...more Here on Earth is one of those books that I enjoyed reading but disliked most of the characters within the story. It is also reminiscent of Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

March Murray returns to her hometown in New England with her fifteen year old daughter Gwen. Her childhood housekeeper and nanny Judith, has passed away and March comes back to her hometown for the funeral and to get Judith's affairs in order. March's scientist husband Richard, who is from the same hometown, stays behind in California unable to come on the trip due to his work.
When she arrives at her childhood home, old memories resurface and March begins to think about her first love, Hollis. She wonders if she will see him again now that she is back in town.

As a child, Hollis was rescued by March's father and brought to live with her family. Hollis was destitute and March's family became his own. However, Hollis was always withdrawn and sullen, only getting along with March and her father and becoming enemies with March's bother, Alan. As time passes, Hollis and March fall in love.

Jealously and resentment mostly on Hollis' part, broke the two up when March was just eighteen and Hollis ended up leaving town with no word on his whereabouts. He left March depressed and heartbroken, often staring out her bedroom window in hopes of seeing Hollis return. The two never forgot each other. Three years later, Hollis returns to town a wealthy man, but March has already married Richard and moved to California. Hollis winds up marrying Richard's sister.
Does it remind you of Wuthering Heights yet?

Now that March is back in town she is desperate to see Hollis. And when she does, old flames reignite and the two are once again inseperable.

Like I said I enjoyed reading Here on Earth. It's got an interesting storyline, and Hoffman's writing is lyrical as usual. The sleepy town in New England almost has a haunting air about it, especially when the author describes the woods and the towns history.

On the other hand, I couldn't help but be judgemental with the characters choices and thought processes. Hollis, modeled after Heathcliff, was too selfish and sulky for my taste, plus a tad disturbed. He was also very 'full of himself', always expecting March to come looking for him.

Another thing is the infidelity within the storyline. The book mostly centers around March's being unfaithful to her husband. I kept wondering if she had completely lost her mind. At one point she even admits that all she cares about is Hollis and nothing else, not even her family. I wonder why Hoffman set out to create these unlikeable main characters? She obviously modeled these people after Catherine and Heathcliff, but when I read Wuthering Heights I didn't dislike them. March and Hollis, on the other hand...
I do think this book would make a great book club selection, there's plenty to discuss within the storyline.

In the midst of all these screwed up relationships and unlikeable characters, Hoffman's writing had me glued to the page.

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Oct 07, 2010 Magmaetoll rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The main idea of this story is about a girl who goes back to her home town with her daughter and falls back in love with her childhood sweetheart who's not very sweet. She left her husband and ended everything good in her life for this man. She learns her lesson and leaves before it's too late. That's all. This book took almost halfway to actually get into. Once you do get into it, you read and you read and then the climax comes and there's some sort of closing. It's the way 99% of books are wri...more

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Jul 05, 2010 Marie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

After 19 years March and her 15 yr old daughter go to a small Mass. town for the funeral of a close family friend, but March is not letting herself see the truth about why she really wanted to go back. She left when she was desperately in love with a young man who had left the area for his own reasons, but neither one of them ever resolved their feelings for each other, so they come together in great passion, but the young man, no longer young begins to exhibit unnatural possession, cutting off...more

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Dec 27, 2012 Anna Marie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was a strange read for me. I do not know very much about this author or the nature of why the book was written but to me it seemed like Wuthering Heights fan fiction. More specifically, it kind of felt like a cross between Wuthering Heights and Fifty Shades of Grey. I personally love Wuthering Heights so the fact that it paid homage to that story was not necessarily a turn off for me. However, in the beginning I felt it followed the Wuthering Heights story line so closely that I was ge...more

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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.
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“You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go- into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there, you're someplace else where there is blue sky and a road you don't recognize. If you squint your eyes, you think you see him, in the shadows, beyond the trees. You always imagine that you see him, but he's never there. It's only his spirit, that's what's there beneath the bed when you kiss your husband, there when you send your daughter off to school. It's in your coffee cup, your bathwater, your tears. Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.” — 175 people liked it

“It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.” — 30 people liked it

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