The Ice Queen - Softcover

Hoffman, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316303070 ISBN 13: 9780316303071

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2015

Synopsis

Be careful what you wish for. A small town librarian lives a quiet life without much excitement. One day, she mutters and idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by lightning. But instead of ending her life, this cataclysmic event sparks it into a new beginning. She goes in search of Lazarus Jones, a fellow survivor who was struck dead, then simply got up and walked away. Perhaps this stranger who has seen death face to face can teach her to live without fear. When she finds himhe is opposite, a burning man whose breath can boil water and whose touch scorches.

About this title

Review:

"Alice Hoffman is erotic and romantic, funny and clever and humane" (The Times)

"Alice Hoffman is a daring and able writer; she plots conjunctions of mundane and magical events with such ease that the reader never doubts her word" (New Yorker)

"Like her contemporaries, Carol Shields and Alice Munro, Hoffman has an acute eye for detail - Hoffman writes with heartbreaking clarity" (The Times)

"[Hoffman] does it beautifully, composing a lyrical tale that does not waster a single word, a shamelessly heart-breaking story that will leave barely a dry eye in the house" (Lesley McDowell Independent on Sunday)

"Enchanting" (Sunday Times)

From the Publisher:

Alice Hoffman at her electrifying best, in a dark, compelling and magical novel about grief, addictive passion and second chances

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0316303070
• ISBN 13: 9780316303071
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 211