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About This Book:

Title: Here on Earth

Other Available Formats:
Audio Cassette, 1997
Audio Cassette, 1997
Audio Cassette, 1997
Hardcover, 1997
Hardcover, 1998
Prebinding, 1998
Audio Cassette, 1999
Paperback, 1999
Reinforced Hardcover, 1999
Prebinding, 1999
Prebinding, 2001
Compact Disc, 2009
Compact Disc, 2009

Synopsis
A professor's wife named March Murray travels from California to her hometown in Massachusetts to attend the funeral of the woman who helped raise her after her mother died. While there, she becomes passionately involved with her old flame, Hollis, an abandoned child her family took in as a boarder. Now wealthy, Hollis has waited all these years for March to return to him, but she soon discovers that he is no longer the person she once knew, but an evil, heartless man. This "Wuthering Heights" update is set in modern-day New England.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Length:        293 Pages
Weight:        0.9 Pounds
Height:         9.3 Inches
Width:          6.3 Inches
Thickness:    1 Inches



Publisher Notes
The author of such bestselling novels as "Seventh Heaven" and "Practical Magic" creates her most glorious fictional world to date in a spellbinding tale of love and obsession. After nearly 20 years of living in California, March Murray and her daughter Gwen return to March's small Massachusetts hometown. Thrust into the world of her past, March slowly comes to realize the complexity of the choices made by those around her, including Hollis, the boy she loved--now the man she can't seem to stay away from.



Industry Reviews
"[D]ark and wonderful....Alice Hoffman has never seen deeper inside her characters....'Here on Earth' is Alice Hoffman's most powerful and moving novel to date, and one of the finest fictional explorations of family love..."
(08/31/1997)
"At the end of 'Wuthering Heights,' someone viewing the graves of Heathcliff and Catherine wonders how anyone could imagine unquiet slumbers for the lovers resting in that quiet earth. Despite the many wonders that Hoffman has unearthed, you can only wish that she had left them rest in peace."
(08/24/1997)
"Daringly old-fashioned, Hoffman's writing is wholesome without being proselytising or dull."
(October 1997)
"Hoffman's fans won't be disappointed by the airy-fairy 'Here on Earth,' her 12th novel, which weaves all of Hoffman's usual themes into a dreamy, intricate family melodrama, complete with alcoholism, wife-beating, obsessional love and whiffs of murder....Still, this novel's comfy, confident voice is enough to lure you into an armchair for the better part of an evening....It's curiously pleasurable, and reading it induces only a minimum of guilt."
(09/09/1997)


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Here on Earth and it was written by Alice Hoffman. This edition of Here on Earth is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is March 1998 and it has a suggested retail price of $15. There are 293 pages in the book and it was published by Berkley Pub Group. The 10 digit ISBN is 0425167313 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780425167311. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.