Quotes
“An original and moving novel about two women whose fierce
individuality almost keeps them from knowing and loving each other. It is always
memorable, and wonderful, when a novelist can lavish such complexity and such
affection on two warring characters that the reader feels sympathetic to them
both…A sad and wise story, told with grace—a superb novel by a writer of the
most admirable energy.” John Irving
“A spare, translucent, gothic novel about a family of living ghosts…A beautiful book.” Richard Price, New York Times bestselling author
“A fierce and wicked fairy tale of these ‘modern’ times.. Alice Hoffman has an extraordinary sense of the fabulous…The Drowning Season is a touching and startling novel by a young writer who has a feeling for myth, genuine wickedness, and the nagging perversity of love.” New York Times Book Review
“A stark, modern fable…haunting and wise.” Newsweek
“A triumph.” Los Angeles Times
“Hypnotic and mythic in its language and rhythms…reverberates
with situations and characters that suggest ancient myths…fulfilling fiction’s
promise, it sheds a little light on the darkness.” Washington Post
“A beautiful and healing book. It casts the spell of all great fairy tales.” Chicago Sun-Times
“Awesome and funny….Hoffman is operating in Kafka’s realm, in the territory of I. B. Singer, and of Tolstoy’s folk tales…. She has tapped some timeless quality of human experience.” Newsday
“Flows so magically it seems much like the sea around which
the story is constructed.” Rocky Mountain News
“In this mythlike, haunting novel, Hoffman’s brilliantly
rhythmic prose flashes upon the roiling mysteries of death and love—through a prism of iced-in lives…A mesmerizing, magical work.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
