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With her signature "vivid, convincing characters <and> uncommon insight," ( People ) Alice Hoffman in Illumination Night follows the lives of an old woman whose last mission is to save her granddaughter's soul; a family torn apart by a wife's fears and a husband's desires-and a high school girl who comes to Martha's Vineyard against her will, and who will bring everyone together in a web of yearning, sin, and ultimate redemption. "<A> bright constellation of characters...draws the reader into the dusky, dreamy world of Alice Hoffman." ( St. Petersburg Times ) "Alice Hoffman hits bull's eyes on the incomprehensions between the young and the old, on the magic and pain of ordinary life. She is erotic and romantic...funny...clever and humane." ( The Times , London) "Alice Hoffman takes seemingly ordinary lives and lets us see and feel extraordinary things." (Amy Tan) "One of the best writers we have today-insightful, funny, intelligent, with a distinctive voice." ( Cleveland Plain Dealer ) "A major novelist." ( Newsweek )
