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Alice Hoffman - The River King

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A town divided by class lines is thrown into turmoil by a mysterious death, which begins to unravel the lives of a fifteen-year-old girl, a young boy, and a woman running from her own destiny.
 

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The River King ? A fine example of Hoffman?s Magic

Date of Review:  Dec 15, 2002
The Bottom Line: This book is a great example of the magic of Alice Hoffman's writing! If you like Hoffman, you'll love "The River King". If you've never read Hoffman - you should!
Review: The first Alice Hoffman novel that I read was Here on Earth . I m usually a fairly leisurely reader, but I gulped down that book in one weekend of reading gluttony! Hoffman s ability to weave a story through poetic prose and magical descriptions...
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  5.0

by: theworm
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Magical and Poetic prose as only...
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None for me, but some might find the...
 

LOVE, DISILLUSION, TRAGEDY

Date of Review:  Oct 16, 2000
Review: After reading about a third of this novel, I decided I did not like it
and that I wouldn't finish reading it. I thought about writing an
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Recommended to buy: No

Pros
Slightly Mystic Quality
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Flat, lacking in vitality
 

Hoffman True to Trademark Mysticism

Date of Review:  Jan 11, 2002
The Bottom Line: The River King, true to Hoffman's style, is eloquently written. The symbolism is layers and very poignant. However, the book does have disturbing themes of death and emotional pain.
Review: Alice Hoffman is most likely best know as the author of the book which was made into the movie "Practical Magic". If you have seen this film you will appreciate some of Hoffman's trademarks of mysticism and magic. However, you will also likely...
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Authors Alice Hoffman
Narrator Laural Merlington
Fiction Genre Unknown
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  Salon: "Hoffman glides with ease through potentially hokey matters--she has a lovely gift for writing about ghosts and karmic retribution as if they were the most natural things in the world. But her work doesn't hang upon spectral photographs or floral-scented phantoms. What Hoffman does masterfully is crawl inside the heads of regular people as they fall in love, grieve and sink into the bitterest loneliness, as they find a place in the world, as they die."

Book Editions

  Format: Audio - Audio Cassette
Publisher: Brilliance Audio (July 01, 2000)
Measurements: 7.25"(h) x 4.5"(w) x 2.5"(d), 0.65 lbs.
ISBN: 9781567403787

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  The Haddan School was built in 1858 on the sloping banks of the Haddan River, a muddy and precarious location that had proven disastrous from the start. That very first year, when the whole town smelled of cedar shavings, there was a storm of enormous proportions, with winds so strong that dozens of fish were drawn up from the reedy shallows, then lifted above the village in a shining cloud of scales.
 

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