Here on Earth (Oprah's Book Club)
by Alice Hoffman
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Author: Alice HoffmanEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-07-01
ISBN: 0425169693
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Berkley
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Book Review: Here on Earth
Summary: 5 Stars
Love is blind and it will take over your mind. This is demonstrated in Alice Hoffman's book, Here on Earth. In this outstanding book, March was happily married to a handsome man, Richard. When Judith Dale, the woman who raised March and her brother Alan, had died, March had to go back to where she grew up, a town called Jenkintown, so she could attend Judith's funeral and take care of all of her belongings. When she got back into town she began to think about her first love, the one she waited for over a year to return for her. His name is Hollis, and now he owns most of the town.The story takes place in a little town where everyone knows everyone and everything about them. The beginning explains the founder of Jenkintown and how everything got its name. For example, Fox Hill, is the top of the hill where you can see the whole town. People would see many foxes up there until they were killed off so they named it Fox Hill. Hollis knows that March is back in town, but he knows not to go to her and she will come to him. They grew up together so he knows everything about her.
When March had been young, her father had to make many trips to Boston, which is part of the reason Judith Dale took care of March and Alan. One day he came home with Hollis, and he began to take care of him. "Can we keep him?" is what March asked Alan when she first saw him from the window. She had loved him ever since. They spent as much time together as they could after they warmed up to each other. March's father died and left everything he owned to Alan because he hadn't got a chance to fix his will after March was born. Alan didn't like Hollis, so he made out a bill for him to pay since the first day he started living there. He had to pay him for rent, food, clothes, and other things like that. Now many years later, the love returns in March's heart as she returns to Jenkintown and things begin to twist with Hollis's obsession.
The story doesn't really come from one person's point of view. It tells what everyone is thinking and saying whether all the characters are there or not. My favorite part from the story is this: Gwen rushes for the door to Tarot's stall and swings it open. "Go!" she screams.
Summary of Here on Earth (Oprah's Book Club)
The bestselling author of Turtle Moon and Practical Magic tells her most seductive and mesmerizing tale yet--the story of March Murray, who returns to her small Massachusetts hometown after nineteen years, encountering her childhood sweetheart...and discovering the heartbreaking and complex truth about their reckless and romantic love."A sound addition to an impressive body of work."--Boston Globe
"Sumptuous prose."--Denver Post
"Here on Earth is Hoffman's twelfth novel, and the spell she casts is stronger than ever."--Orlando Sentinel
* Includes a Reader's Guide
The New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection...with a Reader's Guide included.
Oprah Book ClubŪ Selection, March 1998: Here on Earth is set in motion when March Murray and her teenage daughter travel from their California home to New England. Their stay is to be brief. Judith Dale, her childhood housekeeper-cum-foster mother, has died, and March must set things to right and get out of gloomy Jenkintown as quickly as possible. "Five days tops," she reassures her scientist husband. Instead, she is pulled back into the arms of Hollis, her first love--an avaricious, Heathcliff-like individual who radiates sulfur and cruelty. "She left and didn't come back, not even when he called her, and yet here she is, on this dark night; here and no place else." In this deep fable of loss and control, love and fear, Alice Hoffman allows us into her characters' cores and makes us wish their fortunes were happier. Here on Earth is filled with wisdom, what-ifs, and animals who seem, if not to know more than human beings, at least to know how to shy from danger.
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