Book
The Red Garden
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307393876 (hc.)
- ISBN: 0307393879
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Physical Description:
270 p. ; 24 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | 14 linked short stories. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Bear's house -- Nights of love -- Year there was no summer -- Owl and mouse -- River at home -- Truth about my mother -- Principles of devotion -- Fisherman's wife -- Kiss and tell -- Monster of Blackwell -- Sin -- Black rabbit -- Red Garden -- King of the bees. |
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| Subject: | City and town life -- Massachusetts -- Fiction Massachusetts -- Fiction General |
| Genre: | Occult fiction. Occult fiction. |
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Summary:
Traces the multi-generational story of wintry Blackwell town through the experiences of such characters as a wounded Civil War solider who is saved by a passionate neighbor and a woman who meets a fiercely human historical figure.
The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives. In exquisite prose, Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, presenting us with some three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption in a web of tales where characters' lives are intertwined by fate and by their own actions. From the town's founder, a brave young woman from England who has no fear of blizzards or bears, to the young man who runs away to New York City with only his dog for company, the characters in The Red Garden are extraordinary and vivid: a young wounded Civil War soldier who is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman who meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet who falls in love with a blind man, a mysterious traveler who comes to town in the year when summer never arrives. At the center of everyone's life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look.
The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturing the unexpected turns in its history and in our own lives. In exquisite prose, Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, presenting us with some three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption in a web of tales where characters' lives are intertwined by fate and by their own actions. From the town's founder, a brave young woman from England who has no fear of blizzards or bears, to the young man who runs away to New York City with only his dog for company, the characters in The Red Garden are extraordinary and vivid: a young wounded Civil War soldier who is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman who meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet who falls in love with a blind man, a mysterious traveler who comes to town in the year when summer never arrives. At the center of everyone's life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look.
