The Probable Future: A Novel

Hoffman, Alice

ISBN 10: 0385507607 / ISBN 13: 9780385507608

Published by Doubleday, New York, 2003

About this Item

July 2003, first edition, stated; first printing, full number line. Signed by the author on a The Probable Future bookplate on the half-title page: "Alice Hoffman." The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, spine ends lightly bumped. The dust jacket is price-clipped; Brodart protected.

Seller Inventory # 014662

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Probable Future: A Novel
• Publisher: Doubleday, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385507607
• ISBN 13: 9780385507608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Alice Hoffman’s most magical novel to date—three generations of extraordinary women are driven to unite in crisis and discover the rewards of reconciliation and love.

Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people’s dreams when they sleep. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window on the future—a future that she might not want to see.

In The Probable Future this vivid and intriguing cast of characters confronts a haunting past—and a very current murder—against the evocative backdrop of small-town New England. By turns chilling and enchanting, The Probable Future chronicles the Sparrows’s legacy as young Stella struggles to cope with her disturbing clairvoyance. Her potential to ruin or redeem becomes unbearable when one of her premonitions puts her father in jail, wrongly accused of homicide. Yet this ordeal also leads Stella to the grandmother she was forbidden to meet and to a historic family home full of talismans from her ancestors.

Poignant, arresting, unsettling, The Probable Future showcases the lavish literary gifts that have made Alice Hoffman one of America’s most treasured writers.

About the Author

Alice Hoffman is the author of fifteen acclaimed novels, most recently Blue Diary. She lives outside Boston.