Alice Hoffman

Vuelve uno de los clásicos contemporáneos de la literatura sobre brujas. La novela que inmortalizaron en la gran pantalla Sandra Bullock y Nicole Kidman.¿Estás listo para sumergirte en este eterno hechizo de amor?Las mujeres Owens no hacian caso a las convenciones; eran tercas y obstinadas, y ser asi era su destino.Durante mas de doscientos años, a las mujeres Owens se las ha culpado de todo lo que salia mal en su pueblo.Gillian y Sally cargaron con ese estigma: desde niñas siempre fueron los bichos raros, el blanco de burlas, rumores y acusaciones. Ademas, parecia que sus tias fomentaban aquellos cuchicheos sobre brujeria, pues siempre tenian la casa a oscuras y preparaban esos brebajes de amor rodeadas de su sequito de gatos negros. Lo unico que Gillian y Sally anhelaban era huir de alli. Una lo haria casandose; la otra, escapando.Pero hay lazos inquebrantables y la magia siempre encuentra el camino de regreso a casa...Una novela exquisita sobre brujas, el amor verdadero, la vida familiar y los conjuros cotidianos. Todo un hechizo literario.Esplendida... Magia practica es una de las mejores novelas de Hoffman; en cada pagina resplandece su talento para transformar lo cotidiano en algo extraordinario, como si lo tocara con una varita magica. -NEWSWEEKEscrita con ligereza y un ritmo perfecto. Magia practica avanza con la cadencia de un cuento de hadas y golpea con la fuerza de una gran novela. -PEOPLE

'As intoxicating as the finest island rum' Independent From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a love story about one of history's most captivating 'invisible' women: Rachel, the mother of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. Growing up on the idyllic island of St Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their tight-knit refugee community of Jews who escaped the European Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for refusing to live by the rules. But Rachel's fate is not in her own hands: in order to secure the future of her father's business, she is married off to a widower with three children. When her husband dies suddenly and his handsome nephew Frederic arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes control of her life, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal affecting her entire family, including her favourite son, Camille Pissarro, who will one day become a founder member of the Impressionists and one of history's greatest artists. Set in a world of lush, exquisite beauty, The Marriage of Oppositesshows Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers. The marriage of Rachel and Frederic is an unforgettable story of an extraordinary woman and her forbidden love.

Coney Island, 1911: Coralie Sardie is the daughter of a self-proclaimed scientist and professor who acts as the impresario of The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a boardwalk freak show offering amazement and entertainment to the masses. An extraordinary swimmer, Coralie appears as the Mermaid alongside performers like the Wolfman, the Butterfly Girl,and a 100 year old turtle, in her father''s "museum". She swims regularly in New York''s Hudson River, and one night stumbles upon a striking young man alone in the woods photographing moon-lit trees. From that moment, Coralie knows her life will never be the same.The dashing photographer Coralie spies is Eddie Cohen, a Russian immigrant who has run away from his father''s Lower East Side Orthodox community. As Eddie photographs the devastation on the streets of New York following the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, he becomes embroiled in the mystery behind a young woman''s disappearance and the dispute between factory owners and labourers. In the tumultuous times that characterized life in New York between the world wars, Coralie and Eddie''s lives come crashing together in Alice Hoffman''s mesmerizing, imaginative, and romantic new novel.

Gorod Blekuell v shtate Massachusets. Kogda-to davno neskolko liudei prishli siuda, na pustuiu zemliu, chtoby vozdelyvat ee, stroit doma i rozhat detei. Sredi nikh byla i Khelli Bredi - otvazhnaia molodaia zhenshchina, kotoraia ne boialas ni metelei, ni medvedei. Tolko blagodaria ei pervye poselentcy ne zamerzli nasmert i ne umerli s goloda. Khelli davno umerla, a Blekuell po-prezhnemu sushchestvoval. V gorod prishli novye liudi: zhenshchina, kotoroi prishlos sovershit prestuplenie, chtoby spasti svoego rebenka i sokhranit sobstvennyi rassudok, tainstvennyi neznakometc, kotoryi poselilsia v lesu i skryvalsia ot vsekh, i mnozhestvo drugikh, ne menee interesnykh i tainstvennykh personazhei. V zhizni kazhdogo iz nikh ochen vazhen magicheskii Krasnyi sad, takoi krasnyi, slovno v ego pochve betsia zhivoe, napolnennoe kroviu serdtce. Takoi sad, gde rastut tolko krasnye plody, est tolko zdes, v Blekuelle, i tolko zdes s liudmi mogut proiskhodit stol neobychnye sobytiia.

From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes a spectacularly imaginative and moving new novel in the vein of The Night Circus that has been acclaimed by Jodi Picoult as 'truly stunning: part love story, part mystery, part history, and all beauy'. New York City, 1911. Meet Coralie Sardie, circus girl, web-fingered mermaid, shy only daughter of Professor Sardie and raised in the bizarre surroundings of his Museum of Extraordinary Things. And meet Eddie Cohen, a handsome young immigrant who has run away from his painful past and his Orthodox family to become a photographer, documenting life on the teeming city streets. One night by the freezing waters of the Hudson River, Coralie stumbles across Eddie, who has become enmeshed in the case of a missing girl, and the fates of these two hopeful outcasts collide as they search for truth, beauty, love and freedom in tumultuous times.

From the beloved, bestselling author of THE DOVEKEEPERS, a mesmerizing new novel about the electric and impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New York during the volatile first decad

When teenager Keith Rosen runs away from his Florida home - inexplicably taking along a motherless baby - his divorced mother is perplexed and terrified. she takes off on her own journey to find him. Turtle Moon follows their path in a suspenseful, beautifully written story that confirms once again the exquisite talent of Alice Hoffman.

As children, sisters Gillian and Sally were forever outsiders in their small New England town, teased, taunted and shunned for the air of magic that seems to sparkle in the air around them.All Gillian and Sally ever wanted was to get away. And eventually they do - one marries, the other runs as far from home as she can manage.

Convencida de que el destino y el amor existen, la noche en que muere su padre la joven Arlyn decide enamorarse del primer hombre que se cruce en su camino. El elegido será John Moody, alguien radicalmente opuesto a ella. La historia de estos personajes, y la de todos a los que amaron, sus anhelos y sus decepciones nos introducen en un universo terrible y magico. Confesiones bajo el cielo es una obra elegante y luminosa llena de autentica originalidad.

Description On the night that Arlyn Singer"s father dies, she is certain her destiny will find her. Some hours later a young man shows up at her door. Lost in a strange town, John Moody is an architectural student, serious, reserved, and deliberate. And he has no inkling that the tall, red-haired girl whom he has asked for directions will haunt him for the rest of his life. John Moody takes Arlyn to live in a house made of glass, the Glass Slipper. Her life there is not the romantic destiny she envisaged. She dreams of escape for herself and her children, Sam and Blanca, but her eventual escape, too, is not the one she dreamed of. Years later, Arlyn is gone, and Meredith Weiss arrives at the Moody house. Sam, now a teenager, is careening down a path of drug-fuelled self-destruction, while John Moody is tormented by visions of a red-haired woman in white. Meredith sets out to try to save this troubled family. But will her devotion be enough to pull them back from the fate they seem to have cho sen for themselves? Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules and have their own secrets. Told with Alice Hoffman"s signature grace and originality, "Skylight Confessions" is a shimmering, powerful story of passion, heartbreak and families. Alice Hoffman, geboren 1952 in New York, aufgewachsen auf Long Island. Studium in Stanford. Sie wurde von "Entertainment Weekly" in die Liste der "100 kreativsten Persönlichkeiten der Unterhaltungsbranche" aufgenommen; ihre Romane standen auf den amerikanischen Bestsellerlisten. Heute lebt die Autorin der Nähe von Boston.

Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love. John is cool, practical and deliberate - the polar opposite of dreamy Arlyn - yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their marriage traces a map no one should follow, leading them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticut countryside, to the avenues of Manhattan, and to the blue waters of Long Island Sound. Glass breaks, love hurts, and, like all families, John and Arlyn's makes its own rules. Ultimately, it falls to their grandson, Will, to walk a path of ruin and redemption in order to solve the emotional puzzle of his family.

From the bestselling author of The Dovekeeperscomes a love story about one of history's most captivating 'invisible' women: Rachel, the mother of Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. Growing up on the idyllic island of St Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their tight-knit refugee community of Jews who escaped the European Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for refusing to live by the rules. But Rachel's fate is not in her own hands: in order to secure the future of her father's business, she is married off to a widower with three children. When her husband dies suddenly and his handsome nephew Frederic arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes control of her life, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal affecting her entire family, including her favourite son, Camille Pissarro, who will one day become a founder member of the Impressionists and one of history's greatest artists. Set in a world of lush, exquisite beauty, The Marriage of Oppositesshows Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers. The marriage of Rachel and Frederic is an unforgettable story of an extraordinary woman and her forbidden love.

Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl growing up on Long Island until one night a terrible road accident brings her life to a halt. While her best friend Helene suffers life-changing injuries, Shelby becomes crippled with guilt and is suddenly unable to see the possibility of a future shed once taken for granted.But as time passes, and Helene becomes an almost otherworldly figure within the town, seen by its inhabitants as a source of healing, Shelby finds herself attended to by her own guardian angel. A mysterious figure she half-glimpsed the night of the car crash, he now sends Shelby brief but beautiful messages imploring her to take charge of her life once more . . .What happens when a life is turned inside out? When you lose all hope and sense of worth? Shelby, a fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookshops, and men she should stay away from, captures both the ache of loneliness and the joy of finding oneself at last. From the bestselling author of The Dovekeepers comes this spellbinding, poignant and life-affirming story of one womans journey towards happiness and the power of love, family and fate.

Alice Hoffman teje una historia mágica e imponentemente original que traza la vida de tres mujeres enamoradas del hombre equivocado: Headstrong Madeleine Séller se encuentra irresistiblemente atraída por el novio de su hermana; Frieda Lewis, hija de un doctor y fugitivo, se convierte en la musa de una malograda estrella del rock; y la hermosa Bryn Evans quiere casarse con un ingles mientras esta secretamente obsesionada por su exmarido. El corazon de la novela es Lucy Green, que se culpa de un accidente de la que fue testigo a la edad de doce años.

A haunting and emotionally satisfying novel from a much-loved and critically acclaimed author, which weaves fairy tale and gritty realism together to dazzlingly effect. ''The Story Sisters'' charts the lives of three sisters -- Elv, Claire and Meg. Each has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart''s desire, and a demon who will not let go. What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you? At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing, ''The Story Sisters'' sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them.