Alice Hoffman Books In Order

Practical Magic Books In Publication Order

  1. Practical Magic (1995)
  2. The Rules of Magic (2017)
  3. Magic Lessons (2020)
  4. The Book of Magic (2021)

Practical Magic Books In Chronological Order

  1. Magic Lessons (2020)
  2. The Rules of Magic (2017)
  3. Practical Magic (1995)
  4. The Book of Magic (2021)

Water Tales Books In Publication Order

  1. Aquamarine (2001)
  2. Indigo (2002)

Green Angel Books In Publication Order

  1. Green Angel (2003)
  2. Green Witch (2010)

Inheritance Collection Books In Publication Order

  1. Everything My Mother Taught Me (2019)
  2. Can You Feel This? (By:Julie Orringer) (2019)
  3. The Lion’s Den (By:Anthony Marra) (2019)
  4. Zenith Man (By:Jennifer Haigh) (2019)
  5. The Weddings (By:Alexander Chee) (2019)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Property Of (1977)
  2. The Drowning Season (1979)
  3. Angel Landing (1980)
  4. White Horses (1982)
  5. Fortune’s Daughter (1985)
  6. Illumination Night (1987)
  7. At Risk (1988)
  8. Here on Earth (1990)
  9. Seventh Heaven (1990)
  10. Turtle Moon (1992)
  11. Second Nature (1994)
  12. Local Girls (1999)
  13. The River King (2000)
  14. Blue Diary (2001)
  15. The Probable Future (2003)
  16. The Ice Queen (2005)
  17. The Foretelling (2005)
  18. Incantation (2006)
  19. Skylight Confessions (2007)
  20. The Third Angel (2008)
  21. The Story Sisters (2009)
  22. The Red Garden (2011)
  23. The Dovekeepers (2011)
  24. The Museum of Extraordinary Things (2014)
  25. Nightbird (2015)
  26. The Marriage of Opposites (2015)
  27. Faithful (2017)
  28. The World That We Knew (2019)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Blackbird House (2004)
  2. Faerie Knitting (2018)

Standalone Plays In Publication Order

  1. Conjure (2014)

Picture Books In Publication Order

  1. Fireflies: A Winter Tale (1997)
  2. Horsefly (2000)
  3. Moondog (2003)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Survival Lessons (2013)

Ploughshares Books In Publication Order

  1. Ploughshares Winter 1989-90 (By:) (1989)
  2. Ploughshares Winter 1990-91 (By:) (1990)
  3. Ploughshares Fall 1995 (By:) (1995)
  4. Ploughshares Spring 1996 (By:) (1996)
  5. Ploughshares Fall 1997 (By:) (1997)
  6. Ploughshares Spring 1998 (By:) (1998)
  7. Ploughshares Fall, 1998 (By:) (1998)
  8. Ploughshares Fall 1999 (By:) (1999)
  9. Ploughshares Spring 2000 (By:) (2000)
  10. Ploughshares Fall 2000 (By:) (2000)
  11. Ploughshares Spring 2001 (By:) (2001)
  12. Ploughshares, Fiction Issue (2003)
  13. Ploughshares at Emerson College Vol. 36, No. 1, Spr. 2010 (By:Elizabeth Strout) (2010)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Scribners Best of the Fiction Workshops 1997 (1997)
  2. Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (2012)

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Alice Hoffman Books Overview

Practical Magic

Alice Hoffman’s enchanting witch’s brew of suspense, romance and magic — now a major motion picture from Warner Bros.

When the beautiful and precocious sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are orphaned at a young age, they are taken to a small Massachusetts town to be raised by their eccentric aunts, who happen to dwell in the darkest, eeriest house in town. As they become more aware of their aunts’ mysterious and sometimes frightening powers — and as their own powers begin to surface — the sisters grow determined to escape their strange upbringing by blending into ‘normal’ society.

But both find that they cannot elude their magic-filled past. And when trouble strikes — in the form of a menacing backyard ghost — the sisters must not only reunite three generations of Owens women but embrace their magic as a gift — and their key to a future of love and passion.

Funny, haunting, and shamelessly romantic, Practical Magic is bewitching entertainment — Alice Hoffman at her spectacular best.

Aquamarine

Hailey and Claire are spending their last summer together when they discover something at the bottom of the murky pool at the Capri Beach Club. There in the depths is a mysterious and beautiful creature with a sharp tongue and a broken heart: a mermaid named Aquamarine who has left her six sisters to search for love on land. Now, as this mythological yet very real being starts to fade in the burning August sun, a rescue is begun. On the edge of growing up, during a summer that is the hottest on record, Hailey and Claire are discovering that life can take an unpredictable course, friendship is forever, and magic can be found in the most unexpected places.

Indigo

The people of Oak Grove have stopped up the creek that used to run through their town, because they don’t like to be anywhere near water. Eli and Trevor McGill, called Eel and Trout for their fish like quickness, don’t fit in at all with their strange fondness for meals of raw tuna and seawater. Their best friend, Martha Glimmer, feels out of place too, heartbroken after her mother’s death. Dreaming of escape, the three run away, but a flash flood forces them home again, to think about what would make them truly free and face the truth that Trout and Eel are the sons of a mermaid.

Green Angel

The startling, universally acclaimed breakthrough YA novel from master bestselling author Alice Hoffman, now in paperback. Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster, fifteen year old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, Green retreats into the ruined realm of her garden. But in destroying her feelings, she also begins to destroy herself, erasing the girl she’d once been as she inks darkness into her skin. It is only through a series of mysterious encounters that Green can relearn the lessons of love and begin to heal enough to tell her story.

Green Witch

In this powerful, lovely sequel to GREEN ANGEL, Green must learn the stories of a number of ‘witches’ and free her true soul mate from a prison as she grapples with life, love, and loss in a post disaster world.

Property Of

When Property Of was published in 1977, Kirkus Reviews described it as that precious commodity, the first novel of great promise. In telling the story of a young outsider who is obsessed with her gang leader lover but unwilling to commit to becoming one of the Property Of the Orphans the tough girls who belong to the boys on the avenue Alice Hoffman explores hard truths about how difficult it is to love another, and yet how much more difficult it is to pull away.

The Drowning Season

The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a stubbornly suicidal son and a defiant, restless granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family as well as the grounds of their secluded waterfront estate. But he has been watching Esther, too. And his love for her is growing wild enough to uproot them all. The author of Here on Earth and The River King presents a ‘stunning and hypnotic’ novel that ‘interweaves past and present with piercing images and unfailing energy’ Publishers Weekly.

Angel Landing

The bestselling author of Practical Magic offers ‘an affecting love story, laced with humor’ Booklist that tells the tale of a man and a woman, an activist and a therapist, so consumed with helping others that they are in danger of failing in their duty to themselves. This is an unforgettable tale about the true meaning of commitment, from ‘one of our quirkiest and most interesting novelists.’ Jane Smiley, USA Today

White Horses

When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of dark eyed, fearless heroes on White Horses who would sweep her away. But now, as the adult Teresa negotiates life and love, she begins to understand that fairy tales don’t always come true…

Fortune’s Daughter

This novel from the bestselling author of Practical Magic and Turtle Moon tells the story of two women one young, unmarried, and far from home as she awaits the birth of her first child, the other a mother who lost her daughter long ago…
‘One of the best novels to come out of the United States in a decade.’ Annie Dillard’An intimate, lovely novel’ People from the New York Times bestselling author of Here on Earth.

Illumination Night

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

At Risk

In a novel the Village Voice calls ‘memorable’ and ‘striking,’ Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven year old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS…
‘Brilliant…
explosive…
heart rending.’ Chicago Tribune ‘Graceful…
emotionally potent…
A cathartic tale that begs us, with heartbreaking eloquence, to stop looking the other way.’ Glamour ‘Within pages, the reader falls in love with this very real little girl…
Moving, dramatic and painfully human.’ Miami Herald ‘Compelling power…
tenderness and perceptiveness.’ New York Times ‘I have rarely encountered a work that has moved me as strongly…
extraordinary.’ Mademoiselle ‘Deeply impressive…
powerful.’ Newsweek ‘Deeply moving…
Sensitivity and empathy…
radiate from this beautiful novel.’ Chicago Sun Times ‘Compassionate…
This is a serious, honest novel.’ Village Voice ‘Tender, strikingly simple and deeply memorable.’ Kirkus Reviews ‘An affecting novel of exquisite delicacy, with humor, warmth, and sensitivity. Miss Hoffman heals wounds with the gentle touch of an angel.’ Joseph Heller

Here on Earth

In a review of Hoffman’s previous novel, Practical Magic, Booklist wrote, ‘magic, fantasy, and full tilt love at first sight have figured in all of Hoffman’s sexy, funny, and endearing novelsin Hoffman’s universe, all boundaries between inner and outer realms are erased. Fear brings whipping winds, a malevolent spirit causes lilac bushes to achieve monstrous proportions, and love turns the air sweet and golden, melts butter, and makes everyone giddy.’ In Here on Earth, the darker, obsessive side of love is revealed in all of its power, and with all the havoc it wreaks. After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen year old daughter, Gwen, returns to the sleepy Massachusetts town where she grew up to attend the funeral of Judith Dale, the beloved housekeeper who raised her. Yet returning to her hometown also brings her back to Hollis, March’s former soul mate and lover. March’s father had taken the teenaged Hollis, an abandoned child, and the product of a series of detention homes, into his house as a boarder, and treated him like a son. Yet March and Hollis’s passionate love was hardly a normal sibling relationship. When Hollis left her after a petty fight, March waited for him three long years, wondering what she had done wrong. Encountering Hollis again makes March acutely aware of the choices that she has made, and the choices everyone around her has made including Mrs. Dale, who knew more of love than March could ever have suspected, and her brother Alan, whose tragic history has left him grief struck, with alcohol as his only solace. Her attraction to Hollis is overwhelming and March jeopardizes her marriage, her relationship with her daughter and her own happiness in an attempt to reclaim the past. ‘Hoffman conveys the mesmerizing lure of a lost love with haunting sensuality,’ Publishers Weekly, said in an advance review and Library Journal said: ‘Hoffman takes great care here to examine the many facets of love and relationships, turning them like a prism to reflect on March and Hollis.’ With Here on Earth , Alice Hoffman achieves once again the ‘iridescent prose, taut narrative suspense and alluring atmosphere’ that The Boston Globe cites as her hallmark. Erotic, disturbing and compelling, this is without a doubt Alice Hoffman’s most unforgettable novel.

Seventh Heaven

In a novel the Village Voice calls ‘memorable’ and ‘striking,’ Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven year old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS…
‘Brilliant…
explosive…
heart rending.’ Chicago Tribune ‘Graceful…
emotionally potent…
A cathartic tale that begs us, with heartbreaking eloquence, to stop looking the other way.’ Glamour ‘Within pages, the reader falls in love with this very real little girl…
Moving, dramatic and painfully human.’ Miami Herald ‘Compelling power…
tenderness and perceptiveness.’ New York Times ‘I have rarely encountered a work that has moved me as strongly…
extraordinary.’ Mademoiselle ‘Deeply impressive…
powerful.’ Newsweek ‘Deeply moving…
Sensitivity and empathy…
radiate from this beautiful novel.’ Chicago Sun Times ‘Compassionate…
This is a serious, honest novel.’ Village Voice ‘Tender, strikingly simple and deeply memorable.’ Kirkus Reviews ‘An affecting novel of exquisite delicacy, with humor, warmth, and sensitivity. Miss Hoffman heals wounds with the gentle touch of an angel.’ Joseph Heller

Turtle Moon

Turtle Moon transports the listener to Verity, Florida, a place where anything can happen during the month of May, when migrating sea turtles come to town, mistaking the glow of the streetlights for the moon. A young single mother is murdered in her apartment and her baby is gone. Keith, a 12 year old boy in the same apartment building the self styled ‘meanest boy’ in town also disappears. In pursuit of the baby, the boy and the killer, are Keith’s divorced mother and a cop who himself was once considered the meanest boy in town. Their search leads them down the humid byways of a Florida populated almost exclusively by people from somewhere else; emotional refugees seeking sanctuary along the swampy coast.

Second Nature

A New York Times bestseller, Second Nature tells the story of a suburban woman, Robin Moore, who discovers her own free spirit through a stranger she brings home to her perfectly ordered neighborhood. As Robin impulsively draws this beautiful, uncivilized man into her world meanwhile coping with divorce and a troubled teenage son she begins to question her wisdom and doubt her own heart, and ultimately she changes her ideas about love and humanity.

Local Girls

The New York Times Book Review has noted, ‘Alice Hoffman writes quite wonderfully about the magic in our lives,’ and now she casts her spell over a Long Island neighborhood filled with dreamers and dreams. In a dazzling series of family portraits, Hoffman evokes the world of the Samuelsons, a family torn apart by tragedy and divorce in a world of bad judgment and fierce attachments, disappointments and devotion. With rich, pure prose Hoffman charts the progress of Gretel Samuelson from the time she is a young girl already acquainted with betrayal and grief, until she finally leaves home. Gretel’s sly, funny, knowing perspective is at the heart of this collection, as she navigates through loyalty and loss with the help of an unforgettable trio of women: her best friend, Jill, her romance addled cousin Margot, and her mother, Franny, whose spiritual journey affects them all. Told in alternating voices, these stories are funny and lyrical, disturbing and healing, each a lesson in survival, a reminder of the ties of blood, and the power of friendship.

The River King

A suspenseful, lyrical account of one man’s search for the truth, by the master storyteller The Washington Post Book World has called ‘a writer of great wisdom and compassion.’For more than a century, the small town of Haddan, Massachusetts, has been divided, as if by a line drawn down the center of Main Street, separating those born and bred in the village from those who attend the prestigious Haddan School. But one October night the two worlds are thrust together due to an inexplicable death, and the town’s divided history is revealed in all its complexity. The lives of everyone involved are unraveled: from Carlin Leander, the fifteen year old girl who is as loyal as she is proud, to Betsy Chase, a woman running from her own destiny; from August Pierce, a boy who unexpectedly finds courage in his darkest hour, to Abel Grey, the police officer who refuses to let unspeakable actions both past and present slide by without notice. Entertainment Weekly has declared that Alice Hoffman’s worlds are ‘replete with miracles’ and The Boston Globe has praised her ‘iridescent prose, taut narrative suspense, and alluring atmosphere.’ Now she brings us a novel as compelling as it is daring, an exploration of forgiveness and hope, a wondrous tale of innocence and evil, and of the secrets we keep.

Blue Diary

A suspenseful, lyrical account of one man’s search for the truth, by the master storyteller The Washington Post Book World has called ‘a writer of great wisdom and compassion.’For more than a century, the small town of Haddan, Massachusetts, has been divided, as if by a line drawn down the center of Main Street, separating those born and bred in the village from those who attend the prestigious Haddan School. But one October night the two worlds are thrust together due to an inexplicable death, and the town’s divided history is revealed in all its complexity. The lives of everyone involved are unraveled: from Carlin Leander, the fifteen year old girl who is as loyal as she is proud, to Betsy Chase, a woman running from her own destiny; from August Pierce, a boy who unexpectedly finds courage in his darkest hour, to Abel Grey, the police officer who refuses to let unspeakable actions both past and present slide by without notice. Entertainment Weekly has declared that Alice Hoffman’s worlds are ‘replete with miracles’ and The Boston Globe has praised her ‘iridescent prose, taut narrative suspense, and alluring atmosphere.’ Now she brings us a novel as compelling as it is daring, an exploration of forgiveness and hope, a wondrous tale of innocence and evil, and of the secrets we keep.

The Probable Future

Alice Hoffman’s most magical novel to date three generations of extraordinary women are driven to unite in crisis and discover the rewards of reconciliation and love.

Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people s dreams when they sleep. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window on the future a future that she might not want to see.

In The Probable Future this vivid and intriguing cast of characters confronts a haunting past and a very current murder against the evocative backdrop of small town New England. By turns chilling and enchanting, The Probable Future chronicles the Sparrows s legacy as young Stella struggles to cope with her disturbing clairvoyance. Her potential to ruin or redeem becomes unbearable when one of her premonitions puts her father in jail, wrongly accused of homicide. Yet this ordeal also leads Stella to the grandmother she was forbidden to meet and to a historic family home full of talismans from her ancestors.

Poignant, arresting, unsettling, The Probable Future showcases the lavish literary gifts that have made Alice Hoffman one of America s most treasured writers.

The Ice Queen

A solitary New Jersey librarian whose favorite book is a guide to suicide methods is struck by lightning in Alice Hoffman’s superb novel, The Ice Queen. Orphaned at the age of eight after angrily wishing she would never see her mother again, our hero*ine found herself frozen emotionally: ‘I was the child who stomped her feet and made a single wish and in so doing ended the whole world my world, at any rate.’Her brother Ned solved the pain of their mother’s death by becoming a meteorologist: applying reason and logic to bad weather. Eventually, he invites our hero*ine to move down to Florida, where he teaches at a university. Here, while trying to swat a fly, she is struck by lightning the resulting neurological damage includes an inability to see the color red. Orlon County turns out to receive two thirds of all the lightning strikes in Florida each year, and our hero*ine soon becomes drawn into the mysteries of lightning: the withering of trees and landscape near a strike, the medical traumas and odd new abilities of victims, the myths of renewal. Although a recluse, she becomes fascinated by a legendary local farmer nicknamed Lazarus Jones, said to have beaten death after a lightning strike: to have seen the other side and come back. The burning match to her cool reserve her personal unguided tour through Hades Lazarus will prove to be the talisman that restores her to girlhood innocence and possibility. Hoffman’s story advances with a feline economy of language and movement not a word spared for the color of the sky, unless the color of the sky factors into the narrative. Among the authors who have played with the fairy tale’s harsh mercies e.g. Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Hoffman has the closest understanding of the primal fears that drive the genre, and why, perhaps, we never outgrow fairy stories, but only learn to substitute dull, wholesome qualities like personal initiative or good timing for the elements that raise the hairs on our neck and send us scrambling for the light switch. Regina Marler

The Foretelling

Estrella deMadrigal thought she knew herself: daughter, granddaughter, sister, dearest friend, beloved. She is Star in the Night Sky, Truth in the Darkness. But truth is rare and precious in this cruel and unforgiving century in Spain, when Jews who refused conversion to Christianity risked everything love, life, family, faith. Then: A startling discovery shakes Estrella’s world to the core. And yet, it is something small and sweet that sets it aflame. A kiss. A kiss from someone she is forbidden to love. As a new girl emerges from the cocoon of secrets in which she has been shrouded, passion burns and friendship crumbles and betrayal unleashes a monstrous evil from the very deepest part of the earth. Estrella crosses over to a place she never thought she could be; she is someone she never could have imagined. Remember the story she is about to tell you.

Incantation

Estrella deMadrigal thought she knew herself: daughter, granddaughter, sister, dearest friend, beloved. She is Star in the Night Sky, Truth in the Darkness. But truth is rare and precious in this cruel and unforgiving century in Spain, when Jews who refused conversion to Christianity risked everything love, life, family, faith. Then: A startling discovery shakes Estrella’s world to the core. And yet, it is something small and sweet that sets it aflame. A kiss. A kiss from someone she is forbidden to love. As a new girl emerges from the cocoon of secrets in which she has been shrouded, passion burns and friendship crumbles and betrayal unleashes a monstrous evil from the very deepest part of the earth. Estrella crosses over to a place she never thought she could be; she is someone she never could have imagined. Remember the story she is about to tell you.

Skylight Confessions

A stunning new novel about three generations of a family haunted by love from the bestselling author of Practical Magic and Here on Earth. Arlyn Singer believes in destiny and in love. But fate seems to be playing a trick on the night when John Moody knocks on her door to ask for directions. Opposites who cannot understand each other, they are drawn to one another even when it’s clear they’re bound to bring each other grief. Their marriage is dangerous territory, tracing a map no one should follow. It leads them and their children to the Connecticut countryside, the avenues in Manhattan, the blue waters of the Long Island Sound, all in a search for family and identity. There is Sam, the brilliant explosive artist who is drawn to self destruction and dreams. Blanca, the beautiful loner who tries desperately to protect her brother from his destiny and lives her own life in a world of books. And Will, the grandson, who is left a legacy of broken pieces he needs to put together, an emotional and mysterious puzzle made up of people who don’t know the first thing about love. Here is a family so real, so tragic, so devoted it is as if they have written their own riveting history a quest for love and truth. Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules. Skylight Confessions is a luminous and elegant work of true originality. No one who reads this novel will ever forget it or look at their own family in quite the same way.

The Third Angel

Alice Hoffman is my favorite writer.
Jodi Picoult

Alice Hoffman is one of our most beloved writers. Here on Earth was an Oprah Book Club selection. Practical Magic and Aquamarine were both bestselling books and Hollywood movies. Her novels have received mention as notable books of the year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, and People magazine, and her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, Kenyon Review, Redbook, Architectural Digest, Gourmet, and Self.

Now, in The Third Angel, Hoffman weaves a magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men: Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sister’s fianc . Frieda Lewis, a doctor s daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill fated rock star. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex husband. At the heart of the novel is Lucy Green, who blames herself for a tragic accident she witnessed at the age of twelve, and who spends four decades searching for The Third Angel the angel on earth who will renew her faith.

Brilliantly evoking London s King s Road, Knightsbridge, and Kensington while moving effortlessly back in time, The Third Angel is a work of startling beauty about the unique, alchemical nature of love.

From the Hardcover edition.

The Story Sisters

From the New York Times Bestselling
Author of The Third Angel

Alice Hoffman’s previous novel, The Third Angel, was hailed as ‘an unforgettable portrait of the depth of true love’ USA Today, ‘stunning’ Jodi Picoult, and ‘spellbinding’ Miami Herald. Her new novel, 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? These are the questions this luminous novel asks.

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. It confirms Alice Hoffman s reputation as ‘a writer whose keen ear for the measure struck by the beat of the human heart is unparalleled’ The Chicago Tribune.

The Red Garden

The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives. In exquisite prose, Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small town America, presenting us with some three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption in a web of tales where characters’ lives are intertwined by fate and by their own actions. From the town’s founder, a brave young woman from England who has no fear of blizzards or bears, to the young man who runs away to New York City with only his dog for company, the characters in The Red Garden are extraordinary and vivid: a young wounded Civil War soldier who is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman who meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet who falls in love with a blind man, a mysterious traveler who comes to town in the year when summer never arrives. At the center of everyone’s life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look. Beautifully crafted, shimmering with magic, The Red Garden is as unforgettable as it is moving. From the Hardcover edition.

The Dovekeepers

Over five years in the writing, Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmerizing work ever, a triumph of imagination and research set in ancient Israel. The author of such iconic bestsellers as Illumination Night, Practical Magic, Fortune s Daughter, and Oprah s Book Club selection Here on Earth, Alice Hoffman is one of the most popular and memorable writers of her generation. Now, in The Dovekeepers, Hoffman delivers her most masterful work yet one that draws on her passion for mythology, magic, and archaeology and her inimitable understanding of women. In 70 C.D., nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on a mountain in the Judean desert, Masada. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic historical event, Hoffman weaves a spellbinding tale of four extraordinary, bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom comes to Masada by a different path. Yael s mother died in childbirth, and her father never forgave her for that death. Revka, a village baker s wife, watched the horrifically brutal murder of her daughter by Roman soldiers; she brings to Masada her twin grandsons, rendered mute by their own witness. Aziza is a warrior s daughter, raised as a boy, a fearless rider and expert marksman, who finds passion with another soldier. Shirah is wise in the ways of ancient magic and medicine, a woman with uncanny insight and power. The lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of the siege, as the Romans draw near. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love. This novel is Alice Hoffman s masterpiece.

Blackbird House

With incantatory prose that sweeps over the reader like a dream, Philadelphia Inquirer, Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years. In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet: Violet, a brilliant girl who is in love with books and with a man destined to betray her; Lysander Wynn, attacked by a halibut as big as a horse, certain that his life is ruined until a boarder wearing red boots arrives to change everything; Maya Cooper, who does not understand the true meaning of the love between her mother and father until it is nearly too late. From the time of the British occupation of Massachusetts to our own modern world, family after family’s lives are inexorably changed, not only by the people they love but by the lives they lead inside Blackbird House. These interconnected narratives are as intelligent as they are haunting, as luminous as they are unusual. Inside Blackbird House more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives. The past both dissipates and remains contained inside the rooms of Blackbird House, where there are terrible secrets, inspired beauty, and, above all else, a spirit of coming home. From the writer Time has said tells ‘truths powerful enough to break a reader s heart comes a glorious travelogue through time and fate, through loss and love and survival. Welcome to Blackbird House.

Moondog

Michael McKenzie and his sister Hazel are awakened a few nights before Halloween by growling and howling. The next morning, they find their front yard in shambles, and a small bundle cowering on their doorstep. It’s a puppy! A cute, darling little mutt they decide to call Angel. They soon learn, however, that Angel is no ordinary puppy, especially when the moon is full…
.. Hoffman and her teenage son’s delightful tale of the challenges of owning a were puppy is charmingly illustrated by acclaimed artist Yumi Heo.

Ploughshares Winter 1989-90 (By:)

Poetry issue. Contributors include: Nell Altizer, Robert Anderson, Lee Harlin Bahan, Judith Barrington, Monica Barron, Robin Becker, Sophie Cabot Black, Maureen Bloomfield, George Bogin, Eavan Boland, Bruce Bond, Hayden Carruth, Cyrus Cassells, Martha Collins, Jane Cooper, Alfred Corn, James Cummins, Ann Darr, Rosemary Deen, Toi Derricotte, Melvin Dixon, Rita Dove, Cornelius Eady, Julie Fay, Casey Finch, Suzanne Gardinier, Gina Gilmour, Albert Goldbarth, Sarah Gorham, Jessica Greenbaum, Jessica Greenbaum, Thom Gunn, Rachel Hadas, Joy Harjo, Georgia Heard, Andrew Hudgins, Gale Jackson, Josephine Jacobsen, Judith Emlyn Johnson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ann Lauterbach, Jan Heller Levi, Chris Llewellyn, Phoebe Lord, Herbert Woodward Martin, J. D. McClatchy, Colleen J. McElroy, Karen L. Mitchell, Honor Moore, Thylias Moss, Eileen Myles, Alice Notley, Nina Nyhart, Mary Oliver, Antonia Quintana Pigno, Kenneth Pitchford, Marie Ponsot, Amanda Powell, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Julia Randall, Naomi Replansky, Alberto Alvaro R os, Karl Rosenquist, Mark Rudman, Jerry Santek, Maureen Seaton, Hugh Seidman, Robyn Selman, Anita Skeen, Linda Smukler, Patricia Storace, Terese Svoboda, May Swenson, Lorenzo Thomas, Patricia Traxler, Quincy Troupe, Kim Vaeth, LaWanda Walters, Marilyn Nelson Waniek, Ruth Whitman

Ploughshares Winter 1990-91 (By:)

Stories and Poems. Contributors include: Maggie Anderson, Robert Antoni, Amico Aspertini, Robin Behn, Marvin Bell, Stephen Berg, Michael Biggins, Deborah Brass, Hayden Carruth, Christopher Davis, Ron De Maris, Chard deNiord, Elizabeth Dietz, Deborah Digges, Stuart Dischell, Philip Dow, Jack Driscoll, Lynn Emmanuel, Kenneth Fifer, Jeanne Foster, Jack Gilbert, Patricia Goedicke, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Jill Gonet, Allen Grossman, Lee Meitzen Grue, David Gullette, Corrinne Hales, James Baker Hall, Patricia Henley, Brenda Hillman, Edward Hirsch, T. R. Hummer, David Ignatow, Richard Jackson, Mark Jarman, Shirley Kaufman, Kerry Shawn Keys, David Kirby, William Kittredge, Walter Knupfer, Laurie Kutchins, Li Young Lee, Mark Levine, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, Alessandra Lynch, Jane Miller, Richard E. Miller, Susan Mitchell, Ed Ochester, Sharon Olds, Rosalind Pace, Robert Pinsky, Stanley Plumly, Lia Purpura, Eric Rawson, Kathryn Rhett, Len Roberts, Martha Ronk, Jerome Rothenberg, Mark Rudman, Tomaz Salamun, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Myra Shapiro, Terese Svoboda, Mary Ann Taylor Hall, Patricia Traxler, Jean Valentine, Arthur Vogelsang, Peter Waldor

Ploughshares Spring 1996 (By:)

Contributors to this issue include: Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Rane Arroyo, Alison Brackenbury, Melissa Cannon, Alfred Corn, Brian Komei Dempster, Tory Dent, Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Mart n Espada, U. A. Fanthorpe, Julie Fay, Anne Finger, Catherine Gammon, Diana Garc a, Mary Gordon, Arthur Gregor, Judith Hall, Marie Genevi ve Havel, John R. Keene, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maxine Kumin, Adrian C. Louis, Khaled Mattawa, Stephen McLeod, Constance Merritt, Alicia Ostriker, Carl Phillips, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Hilda Raz, Boyer Rickel, Aleida Rodr guez, Carol Rumens, Grace Schulman, Maureen Seaton, Reginald Shepherd, Edmund White

Ploughshares Fall 1997 (By:)

Contributors to this issue include: Alice Adams, E. M. Broner, Bliss Broyard, Susan Daitch, Tim Gautreaux, Patricia Hampl, Ethan Hauser, Lucy Honig, Carole Maso, Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Panek, David Plante, Helen Schulman, Maxine Swann, Eileen Tobin, Nola Tully, Meg Wolitzer

Ploughshares Spring 1998 (By:)

Contributors to this issue include: Kim Addonizio, Sandra Alcosser, Nin Andrews, David Baker, Bruce Beasley, Dan Bellm, Nathaniel Bellows, Molly Bendall, Karen Benke, Bruce Bond, David Bottoms, Joel Brouwer, Pam Crow, Michael Cuddihy, Chard deNiord, Sharon Dolin, Stephen Dunn, Laura Fargas, Patricia Fargnoli, Herman Fong, Kenny Fries, Ted Genoways, Debora Greger, Sam Hamill, Jeffrey Harrison, A. Hemon, Colette Inez, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Christina Lanzl, Dorianne Laux, William Logan, William Lychack, Fred Marchant, Morton Marcus, Peter Marcus, Stefanie Marlis, Valerie Martin, Gwyn McVay, Joseph Millar, Carol Muske, Joyce Carol Oates, Suzanne Paola, Linda Pastan, Donald Platt, Liz Rosenberg, Kay Ryan, Gerald Shapiro, Peter Jay Shippy, Kelly Simon, Virgil Suarez, Eve Sutton, David Wagoner, David Foster Wallace, Ren e Weiss, Theodore Weiss, Robert Wrigley, Al Young

Ploughshares Fall, 1998 (By:)

Contributors to this issue include: Alice Adams, Charles Baxter, Michael Blumenthal, Robert Boswell, Max Garland, Wayne Harrison, Pam Houston, Gish Jen, Paul Leslie, Vicki Lindner, Nancy Mladenoff, Howard Norman, Bradley J. Owens, Sheila M. Schwartz, Mona Simpson, Debra Spark, Meg Wolitzer

Ploughshares Fall 1999 (By:)

Contributors to this issue include: Jill Bossert, Michael Byers, Peter Ho Davies, Doug Dorst, Rob Evans, Emily Hammond, Mabelle Hsueh, James Morrison, Antonya Nelson, Stewart O’Nan, Hilary Rao, Elwood Reid, Joan Silber, Elizabeth Tippens

Ploughshares Spring 2000 (By:)

Contributors to this issue include: William Allen, Nin Andrews, Mary Jo Bang, Russell Banks, Mary Behrens, Cathy Bowman, Christopher Cahill, Lan Samantha Chang, Tina Chang, Killarney Clary, Steven Cramer, John D’Agata, Claire Davis, Meredith Drum, David Francis, Daisy Fried, Jonathan Galassi, Douglas Goetsch, Stuart Greenhouse, John Hoppenthaler, Cynthia Huntington, Troy Jollimore, Edmund Keeley, Yusef Komunyakaa, Nicole Krauss, Melissa Kwasny, James Lasdun, Timothy Liu, Cate Marvin, Walt McDonald, Kevin McIlvoy, Melissa Monroe, Emily Moore, Toni Morrison, Robert Nazarene, Joyce Carol Oates, Pedro Ponce, Salvatore Quasimodo, James Richardson, Catie Rosemurgy, J. Allyn Rosser, Stephen Sandy, Lisa Sewell, Faith Shearin, Laurie Sheck, Reginald Shepherd, Terese Svoboda, Bill Sweeney, Paula Tatarunis, Lynne Tillman, Alpay Ulku, Nance Van Winckel, A. J. Verdelle, Liz Waldner, Ren e Weiss, Theodore Weiss, Susan Wheeler, Edmund White, Julia Whitty, C. K. Williams, Theodore Worozbyt

Ploughshares Fall 2000 (By:)

Contributors to this issue include: Ann Beattie, Moira Crone, Peter Ho Davies, Tom Drury, Carol Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Graver, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Bill Marx, Garry Mitchell, Sabina Murray, Pamela Painter, Jess Row, Esmeralda Santiago, Lysley A. Tenorio, Mark Winegardner

Ploughshares Spring 2001 (By:)

Contributors to this issue include: Mary Jo Bang, Dan Beachy Quick, Geoff Becker, Brian Blanchfield, Debra Bruce, Lucy Corin, Lisa Croneberg, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Chard deNiord, Timothy Donnelly, Jenny Factor, Ian Ganassi, Debora Greger, Marilyn Hacker translator, Matt Hart, Bob Hicok, Sean Hopkinson, Jay Hopler, Christine Hume, Catherine Ryan Hyde, R.J. Keeler, Aeron Kopriva, Julie Larios, Vicki Lindner, Claire Malroux, Kathryn Maris, Jerry Mason, Glyn Maxwell, Kevin McFadden, Medbh McGuckian, Matthew McIntosh, D.C. Miller, Eric Miller, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Muriel Nelson, Heidi Lynn Nilsson, Geoffrey O’Brien, Linden Ontjes, Julie Orringer, Sharim Rainwater, David Ray, Robin Robertson, Mathew Rohrer, Amanda Schaffer, Thom Schramm, Dani Shapiro, David Shields, Charles Simic, Ron Strauss, Stephanie Strickland, Mark Svenvold, Larissa Szporluk, Gene Tanta, Karen Volkman, Liz Waldner, Joe Wenderoth, Jason Whitmarsh, Eliot Khalil Wilson, Scott Withiam, Dean Young, Martha Zweig

Ploughshares, Fiction Issue

A literary magazine featuring fiction.

Scribners Best of the Fiction Workshops 1997

Presents an appealing collection of outstanding short stories by talented newcomers selected from submissions from a wide range of writing workshops around the United States and Canada.

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