The Drowning Season
- Author Alice Hoffman
- Narrator Bernadette Dunne
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 15 September 2014
- Run Time 6 hours and 34 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary.
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What to expect
The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a stubbornly suicidal son and a defiant, restless granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family as well as the grounds of their secluded waterfront estate. But he has been watching Esther, too. And his love for her is growing wild enough to uproot them all.
The author of Here on Earth and The River King presents a "stunning and hypnotic" novel that "interweaves past and present with piercing images and unfailing energy" (Publishers Weekly).
Critics Review
u201cAn original and moving novel about two women whose fiercenindividuality almost keeps them from knowing and loving each other. It is alwaysnmemorable, and wonderful, when a novelist can lavish such complexity and suchnaffection on two warring characters that the reader feels sympathetic to themnbothu2026A sad and wise story, told with graceu2014a superb novel by a writer of thenmost admirable energy.u201d
u201cA spare, translucent, gothic novel about a family of living ghostsu2026A beautiful book.u201d
u201cA fierce and wicked fairy tale of these u2018modernu2019 times.. Alice Hoffman has an extraordinary sense of the fabulousu2026The Drowning Season is a touching and startling novel by a young writer who has a feeling for myth, genuine wickedness, and the nagging perversity of love.u201d
u201cA stark, modern fableu2026haunting and wise.u201d
u201cA triumph.u201d
u201cHypnotic and mythic in its language and rhythmsu2026reverberatesnwith situations and characters that suggest ancient mythsu2026fulfilling fictionu2019snpromise, it sheds a little light on the darkness.u201d
u201cA beautiful and healing book. It casts the spell of all great fairy tales.u201d
u201cAwesome and funnyu2026.Hoffman is operating in Kafkau2019s realm, in the territory of I. B. Singer, and of Tolstoyu2019s folk talesu2026. She has tapped some timeless quality of human experience.u201d
u201cFlows so magically it seems much like the sea around whichnthe story is constructed.u201d
u201cIn this mythlike, haunting novel, Hoffmanu2019s brilliantlynrhythmic prose flashes upon the roiling mysteries of death and loveu2014through a prism of iced-in livesu2026A mesmerizing, magical work.u201d
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