Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman Paperback Book

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Rent Skylight Confessions

Author: Alice Hoffman

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: Feb 2008

Genre: Fiction - General

Retail Price: $21.99

Pages: 288

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Achingly beautiful and filled with heart-wrenchingly real characters: one of Hoffman's best.' -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love. Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads 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 families make their own rules. Ultimately, it falls to their grandson, Will, to solve the emotional puzzle of his family and of his own identity.'Hoffman's shimmering, multigenerational melodrama bewitches with supernatural imagery while imaginatively dramatizing all-too-common heartaches.' -Booklist'Alice Hoffman has written her most spellbinding, accomplished novel yet. . . . Although this is Hoffman's nineteenth book, it feels utterly fresh.Her voice-touched by the cadences of fairy tales-buoys us through the novel's saddest currents.' -More

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