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Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman, an American novelist and screenwriter, was born in New York City on March 16, 1952. She earned a B.A. from Adelphi University in 1973 and an M.A. in creative writing from Stanford University in 1975 before publishing her first novel, Property Of, in 1977. Known for blending realism visa mer and fantasy in her fiction, she often creates richly detailed characters who live on society's margins and places them in extraordinary situations as she did with At Risk, her 1988 novel about the AIDS crisis. Her other works include The Drowning Season, Seventh Heaven, The River King, Blue Diary, The Probable Future, The Ice Queen, and The Dovekeepers. Her book, The Third Angel, won the 2008 New England Booksellers' Award for fiction. Two of her novels, Practical Magic and Aquamarine, were made into films. She has also written numerous screenplays, including adaptations of her own novels and the original screenplay, Independence Day. Her title's The Museum of Exteaordinary Things, The Marriage of Opposites, Seventh Heaven, and The Rules of Magic made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Verk av Alice Hoffman

Flickorna Owens (1995) 5,739 exemplar
Här på jorden (1997) 3,112 exemplar
The Dovekeepers (2011) 2,972 exemplar
The Rules of Magic (2017) 2,475 exemplar
The Ice Queen (2005) 2,259 exemplar
The Museum of Extraordinary Things (2014) 2,143 exemplar
The Probable Future (2003) 1,943 exemplar
The River King (2000) 1,690 exemplar
Majmåne (1992) 1,647 exemplar
Blackbird House (2004) 1,565 exemplar
Green Angel (2003) 1,540 exemplar
The Marriage of Opposites (2015) 1,472 exemplar
Blue Diary (2001) 1,444 exemplar
The Red Garden (2011) 1,318 exemplar
Magic Lessons (2020) 1,305 exemplar
Incantation (2006) 1,259 exemplar
The Third Angel (2008) 1,220 exemplar
Skylight Confessions (2007) 1,175 exemplar
The Story Sisters (2009) 1,122 exemplar
Seventh Heaven (1990) 1,082 exemplar
The World That We Knew (2019) 1,016 exemplar
Aquamarine (2001) 1,007 exemplar
Second Nature (1994) 994 exemplar
Faithful (2016) 963 exemplar
Local Girls (1999) 918 exemplar
Indigo (2002) 789 exemplar
At Risk (1988) 777 exemplar
Illumination Night (1987) 762 exemplar
The Book of Magic (2021) 751 exemplar
The Foretelling (2005) 656 exemplar
Fortune's Daughter (1986) 645 exemplar
Nightbird (2015) 467 exemplar
White Horses (1982) 413 exemplar
The Drowning Season (1979) 395 exemplar
The Invisible Hour (2023) 390 exemplar
Property Of (1978) 343 exemplar
Green Witch (2010) 288 exemplar
Angel Landing (1999) 261 exemplar
Survival Lessons (2013) 255 exemplar
The Bookstore Sisters (2022) 226 exemplar
Green Heart (2012) 185 exemplar
Fireflies: A Winter's Tale (1999) 111 exemplar
Everything My Mother Taught Me (2019) 110 exemplar
Moondog (2004) 50 exemplar
Horsefly (2000) 34 exemplar
Ploughshares Winter 2011-2012 (2011) — Redaktör — 14 exemplar
Wanderlust (2011) 11 exemplar
Ploughshares Fall 2003, Vol. 29, Nos. 2 & 3 (2003) — Redaktör — 6 exemplar
Conjure (2014) 4 exemplar
Alto Risco Livro 1 (1989) 1 exemplar
Scribners Best: The Fiction Workshops 1997 (1997) — Redaktör — 1 exemplar
Sister Witch {Essay} (2017) 1 exemplar
Shadow Show #5 (2015) 1 exemplar
At Risk / Illumination Night (1998) 1 exemplar
The Witch of Truro 1 exemplar

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Mot fyren (1927) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor17,491 exemplar
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 444 exemplar
Shadow Show (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 362 exemplar
Practical Magic [1998 film] (1998) — Creator — 335 exemplar
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 223 exemplar
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 104 exemplar
Aquamarine [2009 film] (2009) — Creator — 99 exemplar
Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic (1990) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor71 exemplar
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 71 exemplar
Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 51 exemplar
Once Upon a Childhood: Stories and Memories of American Youth (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Faerie Magazine, #36 Autumn 2016: Vintage & Victoriana (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Faerie Magazine, #25 Winter 2013: Mermaids (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
American Review #23 (1975) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Faerie Magazine, #29 Winter 2014 (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Faerie Magazine, #40 Autumn 2017: Practical Magic (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
The Dovekeepers [2015 TV mini series] (2015) — Creator — 3 exemplar
Enchanted Living, #52 Autumn 2020: The Natural Magic Issue (2020) — Interview / Excerpt — 2 exemplar
Enchanted Living, #45 Winter 2018: Celestial Issue (2018) — Interviewed — 2 exemplar
Enchanted Living, #56 Autumn 2021: The Abundance Issue (2021) — Interviewed — 2 exemplar
Enchanted Living, #48 Autumn 2019: Witch Issue (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Faerie Magazine, #35 Summer 2016 (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Faerie Magazine, #32 Autumn 2015 (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Faerie Magazine, #39 Summer 2017: A Midsummer Faerie Court (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Faerie Magazine, #33 Winter 2015 (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Faerie Magazine, #34 Spring 2016: The Floral Issue (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Faerie Magazine, #37 Winter 2016: The Naughty & Nice Issue (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

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Födelsedag
1952-03-16
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
New York, New York, USA
Bostadsorter
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Utbildning
Adelphi University (BA)
Stanford University (MA, creative writing)
Yrken
novelist
short-story writer
Relationer
Hoffman, Lisa (cousin)
Organisationer
Hoffman Breast Center
Doubleday
Brandeis University
Agent
Elaine Markson (Elaine Markson Agency)
Amanda Urban (ICM Partners)
Kort biografi
Alice Hoffman is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.

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A relatively entertaining, undemanding work of fiction in which a young girl working as a mermaid at a Coney Island freak show falls for a "fallen" Jewish orthodox lad in the slums of Manhattan back in the bad ol' pre-Progressive Era days of tenements, abject poverty, and horrific labor exploitation.

Not sure I found either of the characters particularly empathetic or authentic. I have no problem with unsympathetic protagonists, but in this case both characters evince a frustrating level of gullibility/lack of introspection - dramatically necessary, perhaps, but irritating. There's not a lot of plot, and what plot there is comes off as contrived and far-fetched.

But there's also much to savor here, like Hoffman's lovely, evocative descriptions of the Manhattan wilderness in the days before human development entirely consumed the Hudson River and its environs. Also relished the historically accurate depictions of Coney Island, immigrant tenements, and the devastating Dreamland Fire of 1911. Her portrayal of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and its aftermath is gut-wrenching.

While Hoffman employs many of the elements of literary fiction - themes, symbols, extended metaphors - there's not necessarily a lot of sophistication to it. Water and fire symbolize transformation. Dreamland symbolizes human hubris. Starlings represent invading Europeans/civilization. A fish that may or may not have been reborn symbolizes the miracle and hope of love. There's a cactus that finally blooms at the moment that Coralie's free will finally blossoms, and an extended metaphor in which Jane Eyre serves as a construct for exploring the definition and price of freedom, wrapping up in a rather unsubtle denouement in which the Coney Island fire parallels the famous conflagration at the end of Bronte's novel. In other words, nothing your average high school literature student wouldn't be able to access. (And just in case you do overlook something, the author includes an afterward, in the form of a letter, that clears up any possible ambiguities.) Indeed, it sometimes feels like the literary elements are driving the story rather than visa versa. They add some richness, but detract from the authenticity of the story while adding little in the way of added insight or profundity.

This was my first Hoffman novel, so can't shed any light on how it might compare to her others. I enjoyed the tale for what it was, but am not sure - based on this outing - whether I'm in any hurry to explore Hoffman's wider oeuvre.
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Dorritt | 120 andra recensioner | Mar 14, 2024 |
If you missed Alice Hoffman's name on the front, it wouldn't take too long to recognize her lyrical descriptive style, weaving magic around the characters and through the story.
 
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bookczuk | 18 andra recensioner | Mar 13, 2024 |
 
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lkadin | 20 andra recensioner | Mar 4, 2024 |
What a wonderful book! And this kind of praise doesn't come out of my keyboard often. I picked this novel as my vacation read due to its setting on St. Thomas island, but it has far surpassed my expectations. It made the already beautiful destination alive with local folklore and history.

When it comes to the Caribbean, what most people would associate with historical fiction set in those parts would probably be pirates, plantations and slavery. This book takes a fresher approach as this is a family saga about a Jewish family who came to the island that used to be a Danish colony at the time in search of a refuge. Their destinies are intertwined with the black people on the island while existing in apparently separate worlds.

I find it very interesting that the family in question is the one of Camille Pissarro, the father of impressionism. I wasn't aware he was from St.Thomas and the book describes in a wonderful way how a childhood on the island might have sparked a different kind of vision needed to create a new artistic movement.

The book is centred mostly around Rachel, the mother of Camille Pissarro and the first part of the book that describes her childhood and coming of age is the strongest, truly magical. The book is very sensual and haunting at times. I did find a slight disconnect between the character of Rachel as a young woman and later on, when she was more mature, esp. as the later years were more rushed in the novel, but it didn't disturb me so much.

I cannot say enough about the writing in this book. There are great characters, an interesting story and a very vivid description of the setting. The magical realism in this book is extremely subtle, but magic permeates the whole book which makes it hard to put it down and impossible to forget.

10/10 from me.
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ZeljanaMaricFerli | 70 andra recensioner | Mar 4, 2024 |

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Medlemmar
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