Here on Earth Paperback - 1998
by Alice Hoffman
The author of such bestselling novels as "Seventh Heaven" and "Practical Magic" creates her most glorious fictional world to date in a spellbinding tale of love and obsession. After nearly 20 years of living in California, March Murray and her daughter Gwen return to March's small Massachusetts hometown. Thrust into the world of her past, March slowly comes to realize the complexity of the choices made by those around her, including Hollis, the boy she loved--now the man she can't seem to stay away from.
Summary
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 madeincluding 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 overwhelmingand 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.
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TONIGHT, THE HAY IN THE FIELDS IS already brittle with frost, especially to the west of Fox Hill, where the pastures shine like stars.
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- Title Here on Earth
- Author Alice Hoffman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berkley Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-03-01
- ISBN 9780425167311 / 0425167313
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 6.02 x 0.81 in (22.96 x 15.29 x 2.06 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: New England
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Massachusetts
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97005382
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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