Here On Earth (Paperback)

Alice Hoffman (author)

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Paperback 304 Pages
Published: 11/06/1998

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Synopsis

March returns to her childhood home with her teenage daughter, Gwen, to attend the funeral of the housekeeper who brought her up. Unexpectedly, though, the visit rekindles in March a passion for an earlier unrequited love. Overwhelmed by her emotions, she abandons her marriage and life commitments in pursuit of the affair. But her lover is a man of strange secrets with a violent streak, and she soon discovers him to be a Bluebeard with a sinister collection...

Here on Earth is both a darkly compelling love story and a fantastically detailed portrait of small-town life, rife with gossip, tensions and murky pasts.

An Oprah Winfrey Book Club Choice.

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099750819
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 213 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 19 mm

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There is something irresistible about the novels of Alice Hoffman. Her themes of love, marriage, family and friendship are reassuringly familiar and her style agreeably evocative...Her stories have a quality of mystery and even darkness that puts a fresh spin on the commonplace, and at its very best can make the reader look at life from a fresh angle. If I could see things through Hoffman's eyes, I'm convinced life would be richer and more interesting... Here On Earth is a wonderful piece of storytelling Hoffman is shrewd and witty about the networks of gossip and affection in town, and she evokes place superbly... spellbinding Imagine Wuthering Heights set in a small New England town during the last 30 years. The characters escape not to wild moors but marshes haunted by foxes and souls of drowned men-compelling Wuthering Heights meets The Horse Whisperer... riveting and memorable A gripping novel that evokes the tensions of small-town life