Illumination Night

By: Alice Hoffman

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Paperback | 7 June 2002 | Edition Number 1

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208 Pages

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20.0 x 13.2 x 1.4

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'Daringly mixing comedy with tragedy, and the quotidian with the fabulous, she has created a narrative that somehow makes myth out of the sticky complexities of contemporary marriage... Hoffman writes so simply about human passions that her characters are branded on to one's memory' - New York Times

Vonny lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard with her husband Andre and son Simon. Their neighbour Elizabeth, a woman in her seventies, falls from an upstairs window and her granddaughter Jody is summoned to nurse her through her convalescence.

The scene is set for a magical story of love and loneliness, of terror and human frailty, of the mystery and grace of ordinary experience. Alice Hoffman's ability to fuse the domestic and the mythic in a narrative of such gentle yet magnetic force confirms her stature as one of the most gifted of American novelists.

Industry Reviews

Alice Hoffman hits bulls-eyes on the incomprehension between the young and the old, of the magic and pain of ordinary life. She is erotic and romantic, funny and clever and humane -- Philip Howard * The Times *
A beautiful book. Fresh and dauntless -- Toni Morrison
Compelling...Illumination Night is a novel of convincing psychological realism -- Marge Piercy
An authentic prose stylist of a high order * Boston Globe *
A shimmering, radiant tale * Publishers Weekly *

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