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No cover — Alice Hoffman: Illumination night (1987, Macmillan)

224 pages

English language

Published Nov. 20, 1987 by Macmillan.

ISBN:: 978-0-333-45587-6

Vonny lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard with her husband Andre and son Simon. Their neighbour Elizabeth, a woman in her seventies, falls from an upstairs window and her granddaughter Jody is summoned to nurse her through her convalescence. The scene is set for a magical story of love and loneliness, of terror and human frailty, of the mystery and grace of ordinary experience. Alice Hoffman's ability to fuse the domestic and the mythic in a narrative of such gentle yet magnetic force confirms her stature as one of the most gifted of American novelists.

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Review of 'Illumination Night' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This book is a 3.5 star for me, so I'm rounding to 4. It was incredibly engaging - I felt connected to the characters almost immediately and couldn't put it down - but I felt like the story was somehow incomplete. The writing was great, though, and I felt very much a part of the book's environment.