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The bestselling author of Turtle Moon and Practical Magic 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... read more
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This is a good book but I can't really explain the lesson. That's kind of hard. This book is about a woman named March that encounters with her old lover Hollis. A demanding, easy jealous man, that gets everything that he wants. Meaning women. On their encounter they fall in love again and get... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Hollis: Hollis is one of the main characters. He is March's 1st love , but there's something about him ...
- Gwen: March's daughter , used to be a rebel but changed.
- Hank: Alan's son, he's a very nice person. and March's nephew
- Louise: Susie's mom.
- Alan Murray: March's brother. Now known as the "Coward"
- Richard Cooper: March's husband. I feel so bad for him !!!
- Susie: March's best friend , the judgee & works for the bugle.
- Judith Dale: she dies later in the book !
- Belinda: Hollis might have been the cause for her death ! shhh
- Ken Helm: Susie's love (boyfriend)
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- Henry Murray: he also dies in the book.
- Chris
- Jimmy Parrish
- Lori
- Harriet Laughton
- Minnie
- Annabeth Cooper
- Milton
- Dr. Henderson
- Julie
- Regina
- Alison Hartwig
- Aaron Jenkins
- Maude
- Bud Horace
- Mimi Frank
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“Marriage is, after all, a leap of confidence: We will be together, now and in the future. We are one, from this day forth. The judge is thinking about such matters tonight as well, as he sits in his kitchen with a single light turned on. Marriage is many things to many people: a contract of convenience, a plight of truest love, an agreement made with a friend, or even with an enemy, or, oftentimes, with a stranger you're convinced that you know. Can you love two people? The judge has mulled over this possibility for more than 30 years, and still has no answer. The answer of course is based on one's interpretation of the nature of love, and the judge considers himself to be too old and tired to expect any clarification at this point.”
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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.
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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.
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It’s not the lie that’s the problem: it’s the distance the lie forges between you.
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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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If you can’t change a fact of life, then be smart enough to walk away from it, that’s always been Hollis’s motto. Walk away fast.
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Maybe this kind of weather does something for you, if you ever get used to it—it purifies you and gets right down to the bone, leaving only the parts that can face up to hardship.
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But what do they know about love? You make bargains you’d never imagine you’d agreed to, and you do it over and over again.
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‘Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, but store them in heaven, where neither moth nor woodworms destroy them, and thieves cannot break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart also be.’ ”
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Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.
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No one gets what he deserves, that’s what Hank is thinking now. Things happen, and sometimes it all goes wrong. An entire life can become a dead end.
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First Sentence edit
TONIGHT, THE HAY IN THE FIELDS IS already brittle with frost, especially to the west of Fox Hill, where the pastures shine like stars.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 16 of 70 in Oprah's Book Club. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Alice Hoffman (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0425167313
Page Count: 304
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Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0425167313
Page Count: 304
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- Dewey: 813.54
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