Collected Novels Volume One

Collected Novels Volume One Synopsis

Four acclaimed novels by ';a born storyteller,' the New York Timesbestselling author of The Rules of Magic and The Dovekeepers (Entertainment Weekly). One of today's most beloved authors of lyrical fiction with a touch of magic, Alice Hoffman boasts a body of work that has been praised by readers and critics from the very beginning. This collection includes her first novel, plus three more of her outstanding tales.

Property Of: Hoffman's debut about teenage girls in mascara and leather and their attraction to local toughs is ';a remarkably envisioned novel, almost mythic in its cadences' (The New York Times). The Drowning Season intertwines the stories of two women named Esther: a granddaughter, who yearns to escape the Long Island shore and the coldness of the family matriarch; and her grandmother, who fled her abusive parents in Russia decades before.

This novel ';casts the spell of all great fairy tales. It takes daily life and transforms it into myth as we watch' (Chicago Sun-Times). Fortune's Daughter:

• A New York Times Notable Book, this luminous novel of a restless young traveler and a fortune-teller with a secret is a tribute to the profound mysteries of motherhood and childbirth from a writer who, in the words of Amy Tan, '
• takes seemingly ordinary lives and lets us see and feel extraordinary things.' At Risk is a New York Times bestseller that '
• will leave few dry eyes' (Library Journal). In 1980s America, a family copes with their daughter's terrifying AIDS diagnosis