Property Of

Name: Property Of
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Alice Hoffman
ISBN: 9781483025001

Author: Alice Hoffman

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie

Unabridged: 8 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 10/15/2014

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Property Of is the book that launched a major literary career. In it, New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman introduces a lonely outsider who wants desperately to belong. She deeply envies the tough, sultry girls who wear mascara and black leather and hang with the local gang known as the Orphans. As the unnamed narrator determinedly tries to become the property of the gang's brooding leader, McKay, she will discover what can and cannot be possessed—and what can happen when you hand your heart over to a man who claims to care nothing about love.

About Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including the Practical Magic series and the Oprah’s Book Club selection Here on Earth, among others. Eight of her novels have made the New York Times bestsellers list.

About Jorjeana Marie

Jorjeana Marie has worked extensively as an actress, comedian, writer, and audiobook narrator. Her narrations have earned her several Earphones Awards. She has performed in hundreds of commercials and starred in the pilot Listen to Grandpa, Andy Ling with Elliott Gould. She is a stand-up comic who has opened for Richard Lewis, Louie Anderson, and Kathleen Madigan. Her video game credits include Final Fantasy, Crackdown 2, and Star Guardians. She loves reading so much it gets her into trouble.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Linda

Alice Hoffman is one of my favorite authors and I have read several of her books and given them high ratings but this was her first novel, I believe, and was a darkly disappointing and depressing read about an outsider, her heroin addiction and physical abuse. Written for and about teens but I would......more

Goodreads review by Nilu

I wanted to read Ms.Hoffman’s debut outing after reading ‘Turtle Moon’ and I wasn’t disappointed. ‘Property of’ follows nearly a year in an unnamed protagonists life. She lives somewhere in New York City with her heroin addict boy friend and contemplates her sense of belonging to him and his street g......more

Quotes

“[Hoffman] is a born storyteller.” Entertainment Weekly

“Like Anne Tyler, Hoffman spins a story enchantingly, with the undeniable force and vividness of a dream.” Ms.

“A marvelous writer with a painter’s eye who takes the landscape of ordinary people experiencing ordinary emotions and colors them in unexpected ways.” Washington Post Book World

“With her glorious prose and extraordinary eye…Alice Hoffman seems to know what it means to be a human being.” Newsday

“An unmistakably gifted work, lavishing heart and craft on intractably unsympathetic materials. Hoffman finds poetry—terse, tough poetry—in her unnamed narrator’s doomed infatuation with McKay, president of the Orphans…No sociological cop-outs, then, just acute observation.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)