Alice Hoffman. (2008). The Third Angel: A Novel. Crown.

Alice Hoffman. 2008. The Third Angel: A Novel. Crown.

Alice Hoffman, The Third Angel: A Novel. Crown, 2008.

Alice Hoffman. The Third Angel: A Novel. Crown, 2008.

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   • bioText: Alice Hoffman is the bestselling author of more than thirty acclaimed novels, including The Story Sisters, The Third Angel, The Ice Queen, Practical Magic, Here on Earth, The River King, and Skylight Confessions. She has also written two books of short stories, and eight books for children and young adults. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and published in more than one hundred foreign editions.
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A magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men from the bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, The Rules of Magic
 
“Headstrong women, reckless love affairs and a liberal dusting of the supernatural are the pleasurable trademarks of an Alice Hoffman novel. . . . [The Third Angel] should bewitch old fans and new readers alike.”—People 
Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sister’s fiancé. Frieda Lewis, a doctor’s daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill-fated rock star. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex-husband. At the heart of the novel is Lucy Green, who blames herself for a tragic accident she witnessed at the age of twelve, and who spends four decades searching for the Third Angel–the angel on earth who will renew her faith.
Brilliantly evoking London’s King’s Road, Knightsbridge, and Kensington while moving effortlessly back in time, The Third Angel is a work of startling beauty about the unique, alchemical nature of love.

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   • source: The Chicago Tribune
   • content: "Is there an American novelist who understands the complicated and mulitfacted nature of love in all its manifestations -- romantic, familial, platonic -- better than Alice Hoffman?... Some critics have minimed the complexity of Hoffman's work by refering to her as a romance writers. Well, Hoffman is a romance writer, but then so were Flaubert, Proust, the Bronte sisters, and Jane Austen. The Third Angel is indeed a romance, but one of intricacy and pathos, with characters beautifully, believably and empathetically drawn....The Third Angel represents yet another strong, visceral and deeply, darkly moving tale of love and heatbreak, tragedy and redemption from a writer whose keen ear for the measure struck by the beat of the human heart is unparalleled. The Third Angel is an intense, provocative and throughly affecting novel."
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   • source: USA Today
   • content: "Un-put-downable....The Third Angel soars....an unforgettable portrait of the depth of true love."
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   • source: Elle
   • content: "Hoffman makes vivid and new the realization that grace, beauty, and forgiveness can arise out of the most devastating situations."
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   • source: More
   • content: "Alice Hoffman's richly layered novel, The Third Angel, is one of her best."
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   • source: Redbook
   • content: "Hands down, this captivating book is one of Hoffman's best. It follows three women's lives as they flow together and apart, tributaries linked by the same tragic love story and mysterious ghost. You'll want to start it again as soon as you're done."
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   • source: St. Louis Post Dispatch
   • content: "A book that's hard to put away completely. Even long after it's finished, you may find its characters sneaking, like ghosts, back into your head."
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   • source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
   • content: "These stories capture the fleeting happiness of doomed, misguided love."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly (starred review)
   • content: "Elegant and stunning....Hoffman interweaves the three storioes, gazing unerringly into forces that cause some people to self-destrut and others to find inner strength to last a lifetime."
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   • source: Booklist (starred review)
   • content: "One of her best...an exceptionally well-structured, beguiling, and affecting triptych of catastrophic love stories....Not only is Hoffman spellbinding in this incandescent fusion of dark romance and penetrating psychic insight, she also opens diverse and compelling worlds, dramatizes the shocks and revelations that forge the self, and reveals the necessity and toll of empathy and kindness. Hoffman has transcended her own genre."
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    • source: Bookpage
    • content: "The Third Angel places Hoffman at perhaps the pinnacle of her bountiful literary talents."
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    • source: Susan Isaacs, Newsday
    • content: "With her glorious prose and extraordinary eyes . . . Alice Hoffman seems to know what it means to be a human being."
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    • content: "Hoffman's characters, male and female, tend to be defined by the restless, lonely ache of what's missing in their lives, which becomes clear only when they fill the void with something either unexpectedly right or horribly
      wrong. Along the way, Hoffman seems to wriggle into their skin, breathe their air, and think their thoughts."
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      Starred review from December 17, 2007
      In this elegant and stunning novel, veteran heartstring-puller Hoffman (Here on Earth
      ; Seventh Heaven
      ) examines the lives of three women at different crossroads in their lives, tying their London-centered stories together in devastating retrospect. High powered New York attorney Maddy Heller arrives in 1999 London having had an affair with Paul, her sister Allie’s fiancé,; she must now cope with the impending marriage, and with Paul’s terminal illness—which echoes the girls’ mother’s cancer during their childhood. Hoffman then shifts to heady 1966 London and to Frieda Lewis, Paul’s future mother, who falls for a doomed up-and-coming songwriter knowing he will break her heart. The narrative then shifts further back, to 1952 and to Maddy and Allie’s future mother, Lucy Green. A bookish 12-year-old wise beyond her years, Lucy sails with her father and stepmother from New York to London for a wedding. There, she becomes an innocent catalyst to a devastating event involving a love triangle. Hoffman interweaves the three stories, gazing unerringly into forces that cause some people to self-destruct (“There was no such thing as too much for a girl who thought she was second best”) and others to find inner strength to last a lifetime.

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      February 15, 2008
      Once again, novelist Hoffman ("Skylight Confessions") weaves a mesmerizing tale of the human condition, this time examining the nature of love. Set in London, her new novel tells the story of three different women, tangentially connected. The book's first part focuses on self-absorbed Maddy Heller, who has always coveted her sister Allie's life. That obsession continues when she has an affair with Allie's terminally ill fianc, Paul. The second part travels back in time to follow Paul's mother, Frieda, as she becomes involved with an engaged and tragic rock star. The final section concerns Maddy and Allie's mother, Lucy Green, who was in the middle of a fraught love triangle many years before having the girls. Each of these women has lost her faith and each searches for the one angel on earth who can renew it for her. A solid story with a haunting plot line and interesting characters, this latest novel is sure to please Hoffman's fans and win over new readers. Recommended for all public library fiction collections.Nanci Milone Hill, Nevins Memorial Lib., Metheun, MA

      Copyright 2008 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      Starred review from December 1, 2007
      Over the course of writing more than two dozen works of fiction, Hoffman has created her very own form, the heartbreak fairy tale. Her latest and one of her best is an exceptionally well-structured, beguiling, and affectingtriptych of catastrophic love stories, eachlaced with patterns of three andanchored to a haunted London hotel.In the first and most contemporary tale, Maddy stays at the hotel while visiting her soon-to-be-married sister and falling for her sister's fianc. Set in 1966, the middle tale features rebellious young Frieda, a college dropout working as a maid at the hotel who tries to rescue a junkie rock musician. Finally, thetragicstory ofthe hotel's ghost revolves around precocious young Lucy, whose inadvertent role in afatal love triangle wounds her very soul. A kind doctor repeats thenovel's mantra when he says that we are accompanied bythe Angel of Life, the Angel of Death, and the Third Angel, ?the one who walks among us, ? and, like us, needs compassion. Not only is Hoffman spellbinding in this incandescent fusion of dark romance and penetrating psychic insight, she also opensdiverse and compellingworlds, dramatizes the shocks and revelations that forge the self, and reveals thenecessity andtoll of empathy and kindness. Hoffman has transcended her own genre.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2007, American Library Association.)

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“Headstrong women, reckless love affairs and a liberal dusting of the supernatural are the pleasurable trademarks of an Alice Hoffman novel. . . . [The Third Angel] should bewitch old fans and new readers alike.”—People 
Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sister’s fiancé. Frieda Lewis, a doctor’s daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill-fated rock star. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex-husband. At the heart of the novel is Lucy Green, who blames herself for a tragic accident she witnessed at the age of twelve, and who spends four decades searching for the Third Angel–the angel on...

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