The Drowning Season - Softcover

Hoffman, Alice

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ISBN 10: 0451178157 ISBN 13: 9780451178152

Publisher: Signet, 1993

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Esther the White, a cold matriarch, presides lovelessly over her family--among them, her suicidal son Phillip and Phillip's eighteen-year-old daughter--on her isolated compound on Long Island. Reprint.

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About the Author:

Alice Hoffman is the author of fifteen novels: Blue Diary (2001), The River King (2000), Local Girls (1999), Here On Earth (1997), Practical Magic (1995), Second Nature (1994), Turtle Moon (1992), Seventh Heaven (1990), At Risk (1988), Illumination Night (1987), Fortune’s Daughter (1985), White Horses (1982), Angel Landing (1980), The Drowning Season (1979), and Property Of (1977). She is also the author of three children’s books: Aquamarine (2001), Horsefly (2000), and Fireflies (1997).

Born in New York City, and raised on Long Island, Hoffman graduated from Adelphi University and received an M.A. from Stanford University, where she was Mirrielees Fellow. She currently lives near Boston with her family and her dogs.

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Praise for The Drowning Season

“A triumph.”—Los Angeles Times

“Absolutely magical...one of the best books I have ever read.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“A superb novel.”—John Irving

“A touching and startling novel.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Awesome and funny...Hoffman is operating in Kafka's realm, in the territory of I. B. Singer, and of Tolstoy's folk tales...[S]he has tapped some timeless quality of human experience.”—Newsday

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