Book excerpt: From the great May storm in 1778 when John Hadley and his sons slip the British blockade off the coast of Massachusetts only to disappear at sea, the lives of the inhabitants of the wooden farmhouse on the cape, stranded amid fields of sweet peas and wild fruit vines and red pear trees, coil and weave around each other, right up to the present. This book was released on with total page 240 pages.

Welcome to Blackbird House.Book Synopsis Blackbird House by : Alice Hoffmanĭownload or read book Blackbird House written by Alice Hoffman and published by Random House. From the writer that Time has said tells 'truths powerful enough to break a reader's heart' comes a glorious travelogue through time and fate, through loss and love and survival. The past both dissipates and remains contained inside the rooms of Blackbird House, where there are terrible secrets, inspired beauty, and, above all else, a spirit of coming home. Inside Blackbird House more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives. These interconnected narratives are as intelligent as they are haunting, as luminous as they are unusual. From the time of the British occupation of Massachusetts to our own modern world, family after family's lives are inexorably changed, not only by the people they love but by the lives they lead inside Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet: Violet, a brilliant girl who is in love with books and with a man destined to betray her Lysander Wynn, attacked by a halibut as big as a horse, certain that his life is ruined until a boarder wearing red boots arrives to change everything Maya Cooper, who does not understand the true meaning of the love between her mother and father until it is nearly too late.

In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.

With 'incantatory prose' that 'sweeps over the reader like a dream' (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman.

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