Fortune's Daughter
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780425168707 |
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| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication date: | 12/28/1999 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Sales rank: | 628,706 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.10(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.80(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Fortune's Daughter
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Hoffman is never sappy, yet her lyrical writing and flawed characters usually leave me sobbing. I've wanted to have the last paragraph of this book reproduced, framed, and given to every mother I know.
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Alice Hoffman has to be one of my favorite authors, but I was disappointed by this story. Although it is beautifully written, and the characters are wonderful, it just stops. There is constant disappointment with the lives of the characters. You spend most of the book wanting a woman to find the child she gave up, and when she finally does look for the baby, you are given enormous disappointment. I do not think I would recommend this book to friends.
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A strange book, but my first introduction to Alice Hoffman, my favorite author.
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Rae Perry is a twenty-five year old woman who has spent her young adult years trying to hang on to her irresponsible, self-centered and restless boyfriend. When she finds herself pregnant and alone in the midst of a California heatwave during "earthquake weather" she seeks out the residence of Lila Grey on Three Sisters street whose address she'd gotten from a business card. As a fortune teller, Lila has little interest in seeing into the future - hers or anyone elses, but her knowledge of Rae's pregnancy unsettles her as it has so many times when other pregnant women come to her. These women bring back memories of her own painful past and Rae, especially, reminds her of what it is like to be pregnant with no one to turn to for help.The lives of these two women intertwine in a story that is beautifully written in sparing prose. The gentle unfolding of events and the loving attention to ordinary lives is reminiscent of Anne Tyler novels. However, Fortune's Daughter has an almost surreal quality, as if the two women have been half-asleep or waiting for something that they could not name. At its core, this is a story about women gathering the courage to become more than the sum of their haunted longings and learning how to let go of the past. A pleasure to read.
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I've read many books by Alice Hoffman and for the most part have enjoyed them. This book was a definite disappointment for me. By the time I finally finished the book, I really didn't care how it turned out. I just wanted to be done.
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Pretty good.
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