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Skylight Confessions - Alice Hoffman

By Alice Hoffman

Release Date: 2007-01-05

Genre: Fiction & Literature

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"In a novel that unfolds like a dream," a New York Times–bestselling author "reminds readers that love and family create the most potent magic of all." —Philadelphia Inquirer
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.
"Wholly original and haunting." —Parade
"A novel to be savored." —Baltimore Sun
"Haunting. . . . This isn't just Hoffman's best recent novel; it's one of the best of a distinguished list. . . . Long after the last page is turned, the characters and their stories are impossible to forget." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
"Achingly beautiful and filled with heart-wrenchingly real characters: one of Hoffman's best." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Hoffman's shimmering, multigenerational melodrama bewitches with supernatural imagery." —Booklist
"Among the many pleasures of Skylight Confessions is a sense of continuous corner-turning, a chain of surprises" —Boston Globe
"Spellbinding." —More 

Skylight Confessions - Alice Hoffman

By Alice Hoffman

Release Date: 2007-01-05

Genre: Fiction & Literature

4 (12 ratings)
Read Download
"In a novel that unfolds like a dream," a New York Times–bestselling author "reminds readers that love and family create the most potent magic of all." —Philadelphia Inquirer
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.
"Wholly original and haunting." —Parade
"A novel to be savored." —Baltimore Sun
"Haunting. . . . This isn't just Hoffman's best recent novel; it's one of the best of a distinguished list. . . . Long after the last page is turned, the characters and their stories are impossible to forget." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch 
"Achingly beautiful and filled with heart-wrenchingly real characters: one of Hoffman's best." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Hoffman's shimmering, multigenerational melodrama bewitches with supernatural imagery." —Booklist
"Among the many pleasures of Skylight Confessions is a sense of continuous corner-turning, a chain of surprises" —Boston Globe
"Spellbinding." —More 

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The Rules of Magic

Practical Magic

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

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The Red Garden

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The World That We Knew

The Third Angel

The Story Sisters

Seventh Heaven

Here on Earth

Blackbird House

The Book of Magic (Practical Magic 2)

At Risk

Illumination Night

The Probable Future

The Drowning Season

Fortune's Daughter

The Invisible Hour

Incantation

Blue Diary

Green Angel

The Best Dog in the World

The Collected Novels Volume One

The Ice Queen

Turtle Moon

Angel Landing

The Foretelling

Local Girls

The River King

Second Nature

Nightbird

Green Witch

Green Heart

White Horses

The Collected Novels Volume Two

Property Of

When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

Wuthering Heights

Skylight Confessions

Faerie Knitting

Survival Lessons

The Witches of Cambridge

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

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