Illumination Night

Illumination Night

• Author: Hoffman, Alice.
• Publisher: Berkley
• Pages: 272
• Publication Date: 2002-02-05
• Edition: Reprint
• Binding: Paperback
• MSRP: 12.51
• ISBN13: 9780425183267
• ISBN: 0425183262
• Language: en
• Store Location: General Fiction
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Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, a festival of lanterns held each summer on Martha’s Vineyard, this novel is a modern chronicle of a marriage and a bittersweet exploration of an extraordinary passion. <b>Illumination Night</b> follows the lives of a young blond giant who is as beautiful as he is frightening; an old woman at the end of her life whose last mission is to save her granddaughter’s soul; a family torn apart by a wife’s fears and a husband’s unrealized desires<b>—</b>and the high school girl who comes to Martha’s Vineyard against her will, who steals husbands and cars, and who will bring everyone together in a web of yearning, sin, and ultimate redemption. Both riveting and reflective, this is a story of “parenthood and friendship, self-protection and generosity, dream and disillusionment” (<b>Newsday</b>) that brings to light the talent that has made Alice Hoffman an acclaimed bestselling author.