Fortune’s Daughter by Alice Hoffman audiobook

Fortune’s Daughter

By Alice Hoffman
Read by Carrington MacDuffie

Blackstone Publishing 9780425168707

Unabridged

Format : Retail CD (In Stock)
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  • 2 Formats: MP3 CD
  • $34.95

    ISBN: 9781483020907

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    ISBN: 9781483020891

Runtime: 7.87 Hours
Category: Fiction
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A New York Times Notable Book

This fierce and beautiful story charts the histories of two women: Rae, young, unmarried, and far from home, awaits the birth of her first child. Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future, lost her own daughter more than a quarter of a century earlier in New York. When these two women meet in Southern California, it's earthquake weather—the time when unexpected things happen. Immediately, their lives and fortunes become intertwined, as Rae tries to break away from the man she has been with since high school and Lila reaches into the past to search for the child she lost.

This contemporary world is set against a series of Russian folktales told by an old woman who lives at the edge of Manhattan, in a place so well hidden it can only be found once in a lifetime.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“One of the best novels to come out of the United States in a decade.” —Annie Dillard, New York Times bestselling author
“By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming…an intimate, lovely novel, most of whose concerns swirl about the pain and joys of motherhood.” —People
“This novel’s great strength lies in its two heroines, who both find themselves drawn, without plans, hopes, or full understanding, into the inevitably mythological process of pregnancy and childbirth…It is beautifully and matter-of-factly told.” —New York Times Book Review
“Hoffman is a marvelous writer with a painter’s eye who takes the landscape of ordinary people experiencing ordinary emotions and colors them in unexpected ways.” —Washington Post Book World
"Evocative." —Chicago Tribune
“Hoffman has the uncanny knack of combining the mundane, everyday experiences with a touch of the occult and folklore…What lifts this novel into the ranks of the memorable is its evocative, lyrical quality of writing. Hoffman swings from the everyday to the otherworldly with ease and conviction. She lays bare the deepest secret thoughts at one moment, then segues into bits of humor mixed with pathos.” —San Diego Union-Tribune
“One of those rare books that isn’t comparable to other books at all.” —Boston Herald
“A seductive exploration of the nature of friendship, the exquisite presence of beauty and magic.” —Publishers Weekly
“Hoffman, as always, shows a talent here for psychic journeys into the past and for a certain portentous tension.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Author

Author Bio: Alice Hoffman

Author Bio: Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including the Practical Magic series and the Oprah’s Book Club selection Here on Earth, among others. Eight of her novels have made the New York Times bestsellers list.

Details

Details

Available Formats : Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction
Runtime: 7.87
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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