Property Of, the Drowning Season, Fortune's Daughter, and At Risk

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by Alice Hoffman

Genre: Literature

Published: 2006

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Discover four acclaimed early novels by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Marriageof Opposites and The Dovekeepers. 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" (TheNew 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....

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