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The Story Sisters: A Novel
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The Story Sisters charts the lives of three sisters–Elv, Claire, and Meg. Each has a fate she must meet alone. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart’s desire, and a demon who will not let go.
What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you?
At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing, The Story Sisters sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them.
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Unabridged
Street Date:
06/02/2009
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Alice Hoffman. (2009). The Story Sisters: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.

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Alice Hoffman. The Story Sisters: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2009.

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What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you?
At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing, The Story Sisters sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them.
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        "Hoffman's characters are always moving back and forth, challenging our perceptions, daring us to judge them. Her sentences tremble with allegory. . . . In the end, THE STORY SISTERS, for all its magic realism, is about a family navigating through motherhood, sisterhood, daughterhood. It's Little Women on mushrooms. (Bookish sisters beware)."

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      • content: "Hoffman is celebrated for her ability to conjure plausible alternative realities, to sprinkle her landscapes with witches and other mythical creatures, while keeping her stories closely tethered to familiar terrain. There's a mysticism that swirls about her works but, like a late-morning fog, it eventually burns off to reveal a physical and emotional topography that most all of us can recognize."
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      • content: "This bewitching novel explores the bonds of sisterhood like a haunting modern fairy tale."
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      • content: "Any new book by Hoffman is an occasion to rejoice, as is the case with THE STORY SISTERS."
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      • content: "The sisters'struggle to grow and thrive in the real world will keep you riveted to the pages of this heartbreaking novel about the powers and limits of love."
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      • source: Jodi Picoult, author of Handle With Care
      • content: "When it comes to blending magic and the mundane routines of life, there's no finer writer than Alice Hoffman -- but even she has outdone herself with her latest novel. THE STORY SISTERS hearkens back to the classic fairy tale, where one must suffer fear and loss before stumbling upon a happy ending. Hoffman reminds us with every sentence that words have the power to transport us to alternate worlds, to heal a broken heart, and to tie us irrevocably to the people we love."
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      • source: Booklist (starred review)
      • content: "The always dazzling Hoffman has outdone herself in this bewitching weave of psychologically astute fantasy and shattering realism....this is an
        entrancing and romantic drama shot through with radiant beauty and belief in human resilience and transformation."
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      • content: "Painfully moving....there are beautiful moments throughout."
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      • content: "Keeps readers heartbroken yet spellbound, turning the pages."
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      • content: Tragic and ethereal, THE STORY SISTERS charts the fates of three close sisters--dominated by charismatic Elv--and their imaginary fairy kingdom, Arnelle. As Hoffman's dark, lyrical story reflects the sisters' rapidly shifting power, they even communicate a bit in Arnish, a Celtic-like language they invented. Nancy Travis's Arnish pronunciation is impressive, and she envelopes Hoffman's novel with clarity, compassion, and focus. But she lacks a youthful lightness in her vocal tone, which would more aptly depict the sisters' sense of wonder and earnestness. Something is lost as Hoffman's transcendent, whimsical prose moves from the page to the reading. Travis's strong, mature timbre is too deep, mortal, and grounded for Hoffman's celestial tangents. A.W. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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        March 30, 2009
        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.

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