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A modern chronicle of a marriage and a bittersweet exploration of an extraordinary passion from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic. Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, a festival of lanterns held each summer on Martha's Vineyard, Illumination Night follows the lives of a young blond giant who is as beautiful as he is frightening; an old woman at the end of her life whose last mission is to save her granddaughter's soul; a family torn apart by a wife's fears and a husband's unrealized desires--and the high school girl who comes to Martha's Vineyard against her will, who steals husbands and cars, and who will bring everyone together in a web of yearning, sin, and ultimate redemption. Both riveting and reflective, this is a story of "parenthood and friendship, self-protection and generosity, dream and disillusionment" (Newsday) that brings to light the talent that has made Alice Hoffman an acclaimed bestselling author.
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Praise for Illumination Night "Daringly mixing comedy with tragedy...[Hoffman] has created a narrative that somehow makes myth out of the sticky complexities of contemporary marriage...Her characters are branded onto one's memory."--The New York Times Book Review
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"Vivid, convincing characters...uncommon insight."--People
"[A] bright constellation of characters...draws the reader into the dusky, dreamy world of Alice Hoffman."--St. Petersburg Times
"Alice Hoffman takes seemingly ordinary lives and lets us see and feel extraordinary things."--Amy Tan
"Not-so-delicate questions are raised in a wonderfully delicate way in Alice Hoffman's latest novel...Explorations of the tangled strands of parenthood and friendship, self-protection and generosity, dream and disillusionment are made achingly vivid by Hoffman's ability to ground them in the finely etched details of her characters' daily lives."--Newsday
"There is a cumulative power to Illumination Night that is wondrous...It's enough to make one search out other books by Alice Hoffman."--The Chicago Tribune
"Reading an authentic prose stylist of high order is an uncommon privilege."--The Boston Globe
'Daringly mixing comedy with tragedy, and the quotidian with the fabulous, she has created a narrative that somehow makes myth out of the sticky complexities of contemporary marriage... Hoffman writes so simply about human passions that her characters are branded on to one's memory' - New York Times
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- PublisherBerkley Books
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0425183262
- ISBN 13 9780425183267
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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