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Synopsis
Upon turning eighteen, Esther the Black looks for a chance to escape from her hated and dying grandmother, Esther the White, who lives in seclusion on Long Island where each summer--during The Drowning Season--her son Philip tries to kill himself by walking into the ocean
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"A triumph." --Los Angeles Times
"Absolutely magical...one of the best books I have ever read." --Chicago Sun-Times
"A superb novel." --John Irving
"A triumph." --Los Angeles Times
"Absolutely magical...one of the best books I have ever read." --Chicago Sun-Times
"A superb novel." --John Irving
"A triumph." Los Angeles Times
"Absolutely magical...one of the best books I have ever read." Chicago Sun-Times
"A superb novel." John Irving"
"A triumph." Los Angeles Times
"Absolutely magical...one of the best books I have ever read." Chicago Sun-Times
"A superb novel." John Irving
""A triumph." --Los Angeles Times
"Absolutely magical...one of the best books I have ever read." --Chicago Sun-Times
"A superb novel." --John Irving
Praise for The Drowning Season "A triumph."--Los Angeles Times "Absolutely magical...one of the best books I have ever read."--Chicago Sun-Times "A superb novel."--John Irving "A touching and startling novel."--The New York Times Book Review "Awesome and funny...Hoffman is operating in Kafka's realm, in the territory of I. B. Singer, and of Tolstoy's folk tales...[S]he has tapped some timeless quality of human experience."--Newsday
About the Author
Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including The Rules of Magic, Practical Magic, The Marriage of Opposites, The Red Garden, the Oprah's Book Club selection Here on Earth, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, and The Dovekeepers. She lives near Boston.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0452263026
- ISBN 13 9780452263024
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages228
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