Solid Storytelling

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	• The Third Angel: A Novel Alice Hoffman Shaye Areheart Books, 2008 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 22 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Solid Storytelling

This novel is actually a collection of three, interrelated, stories told in reverse chronological order. The first third is a complex tale of sibling rivalry, revenge, reconciliation and, ultimately, understanding. The second and third stories in the book are almost a back story explanation of the first. (That is putting it simplistically, but having read the book almost two weeks ago, I can recall in detail the first story and have difficulty recollecting the second two.) The first story is a solid five star effort, the second two probably three and a half stars.

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ALICE HOOFMAN

REALLY GOOD STARTS FROM THE END TO THE BEGINNING SO YOU ARE DISCOVERING THINGS CONSTANTLY

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A Good Summer Read

If I fast-forward 50 or 60 or 100 years, I envision The Third Angel being taught in a literature classroom in which the professor is discussing a literary technique called Hoffmanism, where an author writes her book so that it can be read either front to back or back to front. It is the character Allie in The Third Angel who discusses that she wrote her best-selling children's book, The Heron's Wife, in that way. And it is author Hoffman who so eloquently does it in The Third Angel. Based on the reviews by Amazon readers, I can see that some readers want to relate to the characters, and some readers just read for beautiful prose. The Third Angel delivers on both accounts. I plan to re-read it next summer, only next summer I will read Part III first, then Part II, then Part I.

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?Alice Hoffman is my favorite writer.?
?Jodi Picoult

Alice Hoffman is one of our most beloved writers. Here on Earth was an Oprah Book Club selection. Practical Magic and Aquamarine were both bestselling books and Hollywood movies. Her novels have received mention as notable books of the year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, and People magazine, and her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, Kenyon Review, Redbook, Architectural Digest, Gourmet, and Self.

Now, in The Third Angel, Hoffman weaves a magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men: Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sister?s fiancé. Frieda Lewis, a doctor?s daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill-fated rock star. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex-husband. At the heart of the novel is Lucy Green, who blames herself for a tragic accident she witnessed at the age of twelve, and who spends four decades searching for the Third Angel?the angel on earth who will renew her faith.

Brilliantly evoking London?s King?s Road, Knightsbridge, and Kensington while moving effortlessly back in time, The Third Angel is a work of startling beauty about the unique, alchemical nature of love.

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