Alice Hoffman
Forfatter af Practical Magic
Om forfatteren
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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
Serier
Værker af Alice Hoffman
The Collected Novels Volume One (Property Of | The Drowning Season | Fortune's Daughter | At Risk) (2016) 28 eksemplarer
The Collected Novels Volume Two: The Foretelling, White Horses, Angel Landing, and Seventh Heaven (2018) 6 eksemplarer
Property Of / Second Nature 1 eksemplar
The Witch of Truro 1 eksemplar
Ploughshares Winter 2017-2018 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them (2006) — Bidragyder — 389 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2005) — Bidragyder — 222 eksemplarer
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Bidragyder — 72 eksemplarer
Cape Cod Stories: Tales from Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard (1996) — Introduktion — 52 eksemplarer
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Bidragyder — 18 eksemplarer
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Bidragyder — 8 eksemplarer
Faerie Magazine, #38 Spring 2017: The Warriors & Goddesses Issue (2017) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Enchanted Living, #52 Autumn 2020: The Natural Magic Issue (2020) — Interview / Excerpt — 2 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1952-03-16
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- New York, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA - Uddannelse
- Adelphi University (BA)
Stanford University (MA, creative writing) - Erhverv
- 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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Remember
After years of running from her past, Isabel returns to her childhood home. She learns that remembering and facing pain is possible when you are with the ones who love you!
After years of running from her past, Isabel returns to her childhood home. She learns that remembering and facing pain is possible when you are with the ones who love you!
One of Alice Hoffman's Best
Five stars! The book is a love story and thriller. Set on a small island off Long Island, the story confronts small town attitudes about people who are different. It also made me think about how lives can be upended and set on different trajectories. I was left pondering...what might have been?
Five stars! The book is a love story and thriller. Set on a small island off Long Island, the story confronts small town attitudes about people who are different. It also made me think about how lives can be upended and set on different trajectories. I was left pondering...what might have been?
I am an Alice Hoffman fan, but this was not as good as I hoped or expected. In the middle, the book wandered aimlessly. I was wondering, "What's the point?" The last quarter of the book was much better, as the story line actually picks up a bit. I haven't seen the movie, either, and now I don't think I will.
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- Værker
- 64
- Also by
- 33
- Medlemmer
- 52,047
- Popularitet
- #292
- Vurdering
- 3.8
- Anmeldelser
- 1,938
- ISBN
- 1,046
- Sprog
- 20
- Udvalgt
- 197
The school's well painted, the town is too, as are several of the characters. But I was irritated by the way in which the narration was perpetually interrupted by digressions to the past, as a means of illuminating the present. I wanted to read to the end and see how things turned out. But more importantly, I wanted to get to the end.… (mere)