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With "incantatory prose" that "sweeps over the reader like a dream," (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet: Violet, a brilliant girl who is in love with books and with a man destined…
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11 editions- Paperback · English · 2005Ballantine Books · 256 pages · 9780345455932
- Ebook · English · 2004Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780385514019
- Other · English · 2014Blackstone Audio, Inc. · 9781483021102
- Other · English · 2013Penguin Random House · 240 pages · 9781446448274
- Other · English · 2005Vintage · 225 pages · 9780099488897
- Other · English · 2005Charnwood · 203 pages · 9781843957584
Home ownershipFictionDwellingsWomenLarge type booksFiction, generalEngland, fictionFarmhouses