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Alice Hoffman spins a dark tale of three sisters who are traumatized in different ways by the same event. As children, Elv, Meg and Claire Story lived in a magical world of stories, creating characters to act out their feelings and communicating via a ......more
Alice Hoffman spins a dark tale of three sisters who are traumatized in different ways by the same event. As children, Elv, Meg and Claire Story lived in a magical world of stories, creating characters to act out their feelings and communicating via a shared language that simultaneously brought them closer together while shutting them off from reality. But as they approach adolescence, an incident of sexual abuse forever alters their co-existence, sending Elv into a freefall of drugs and sex and severing the bonds between the sisters. Soon they are caught in a repetitive cycle of deceit and betrayal, as tragedies multiply and force them further into their interior versions of reality. Hoffman`s elegiac prose somehow conjures carthartic beauty from even the most dismal of events, as she memorably depicts both the harmful and the healing potential of myth and fiction.
- Author:
- Hoffman, Alice
- ISBN:
- 9780307405968
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 336
- Publish Date:
- 06/01/2010
- Publisher:
- Broadway Books
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Lyrical but atypically monotonous, bestseller Hoffman's (The Third Angel) latest follows the dark family saga of Elv, Megan and Claire Story, sisters plagued by uncommon sadness. As a child, Elv spun fairy tales of a magical world for her sisters, but a period of savage sexual abuse-information about which slowly leaks out-sends her spiraling into years of drug addiction and painful self-abuse. Elv's story is unrelentingly grim, and without Hoffman's characteristic magic realism, its simple downward spiral becomes exhausting. Tragedy after tragedy befalls the family-Elv's commitment to a juvenile rehab facility, a deadly accident, a fatal illness and betrayal after betrayal. When the last third of the book turns to focus on Claire, who has been so damaged by the family crises that she refuses to speak, the slight glimmers of hope and goodness are too little, too late. Hoffman's prose is as lovely as ever: the imagined and real worlds of the Story sisters are rich and clear, but Elv's troubles and the Story family's nonstop catastrophes are wearying. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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