Seventh Heaven by Alice Hoffman Paperback Book

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Author: Alice Hoffman

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group

Published: Apr 2003

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $15.00

Pages: 272

Synopsis

In the late 1950s, when Nora Silk moves into Hemlock Street, the entire neighborhood sucks in its breath. A divorcee who wears Toreador pants and lets her kids eat sweets before school, Nora is a walking scandal. But when the block's husbands, wives, and children get to know her, they begin to see other things in Nora--and this Long Island town won't ever be the same...

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