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Here on Earth

Von: Alice Hoffman
Gesprochen von: Susan Ericksen
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A seductive and mesmerizing story of obsessive love from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic.

After nineteen years in California, March Murray returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up. For all this time, March has been avoiding her own troubled history, but when she encounters Hollis—the boy she loved so desperately, the man who has never forgotten her—the past collides with the present as their reckless love is reignited. This dark romantic tale asks whether it is possible to survive a love that consumes you completely. The answers March Murray discovers are both heartbreaking and wise, as complex as they are devastating—for in heaven and in our dreams, love is simple and glorious. But it is something altogether different here on earth...

© 1997 by Alice Hoffman. ℗ 1997 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

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Alice Hoffman is known for the atmosphere she creates in her novels and how she gives life to places (small towns in New England). She manages to do this in this novel again. The atmosphere is beautifully described and it is easy to imagine the cold, the ice, the snow. The speaker has a beautiful voice which transports the mood well. The story itself, however, remained somewhat unsatisfactory to me. It deals with domestic violence and how hard it is to get out of an abusive relationship. The characters are credible - and the author goes to great lengths to describe them. Yet we do not really learn what happens with them in the end and it seems the way the abusive character is gotten rid of at the end is just too easy. I appreciate the attempt of mixing the beauty of language with such an important and tough topic, but I'm not sure whether this is achieved. I fear that the story itself uses the same romanticism it criticizes.

Beautifully described atmosphere yet somewhat unsatisfactory story

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