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With “incantatory prose” that “sweeps over the reader like a dream,” ( Philadelphia Inquirer) , Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future , with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.... read more
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Characters edit
- Lysander Wynn: "Attacked by a halibut as big as a horse."
- Maya Cooper: "....does not understand the true meaning of the love between her mother and father until it is nearly too late."
- Emma: When we meet her, she is a 6yr old girl who has gone into remission from Leukemia. When we leave her, she's a thirty year old woman who is on the edge of a new chapter in her life.
- Larkin: Add a description of this character.
- Katherine
- Dorey
- Ruth Blackbird Hill
- Walker: Emma's brother. He's a rather angry chap, but eventually grows up to be a doctor and family man
- Lucinda Parker
- Jamie
- John Hadley
- George West: Violet's husband
- Billy Griffon
- Isaac
- Lion: Violet's son who is amazingly gifted
- Siggy: the grocer
- Kalkin
- Grace
- Sam
- Bobby
- Hank
- Rosalyn Brooks
- Meg Stanley
- Jack Crosby
- Ewan
- Jim
- Helen
- Violet
- Morton
- Naomi
- Vincent
- Imad
- John Morse
- Huley
- Josephine Brooks
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
IT WAS SAID THAT BOYS SHOULD GO ON their first sea voyage at the age of ten, but surely this notion was never put forth by anyone's mother.
Table of Contents edit
1. The Edge of the World
2. The Witch of Truro
3. The Token
4. Insulting the Angels
5. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
6. Lionheart
7. The Conjurer's Handbook
8. The Wedding of Snow and Ice
9. India
10. The Pear Tree
11. The Summer Kitchen
12. Wish You Were Here
Authors & Contributors edit
- Alice Hoffman (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0385507615
Page Count: 240
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0385507615
Page Count: 240
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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