White Horses

Name: White Horses
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Alice Hoffman
ISBN: 9781483020792

Author: Alice Hoffman

Narrator: Rebecca Mitchell

Unabridged: 10 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 10/01/2014

Categories: Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

Alice Hoffman, the bestselling author of such beloved novels as Practical Magic and Seventh Heaven, has written a powerful story of love that shows why she has been called a "born storyteller" (Entertainment Weekly).When Teresa was a little girl, she dreamed of dark-eyed, fearless heroes on white horses who would sweep her away. But now, as the grown-up Teresa negotiates life and love, she begins to understand that fairy tales don't always come true.

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 Rebecca Mitchell

Rebecca Mitchell is a performance artist and classically trained vocalist, as well as a professional host, emcee, and personality. Her natural flair for the dramatic, coupled with her love of being in the studio, brought her to the world of narrating in 2013.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Always

Teresa's family is highly dysfunctional. Her mother Dina ran away with her father King when they were both relatively young but the marriage was full of disappointments and eventually her father walks out on them. Dina's father told her stories of Arias when she was younger, men who are wild and res......more

Goodreads review by Judy

An early Alice Hoffman - and a good one. The story centers around Silver and Teresa Connor, siblings in a very dysfunctional family, who have an incestuous relationship that overshadows their entire lives. The book made me feel really sad for Teresa who had a fantasy that her brother was an "Aria" -......more

Quotes

“As powerful as anything I’ve read in a long, long time.” Tim O’Brien, New York Times bestselling author of The Things They Carried

“Mysterious and believable.” New York Times

“Haunting…Alice Hoffman is a daring and able writer.” New Yorker

“Hoffman captures—with jeweled precision and dazzling intensity rare outside of poetry—the beauty of the physical world.” Newsday (Long Island, NY)

“Hoffman writes beautifully.” Houston (TX) Chronicle

“Hoffman’s writing has never been so lyrical.” Philadelphia Inquirer

“White Horses will reverberate in reader’s imaginations for a long time.” San Francisco Chronicle

“A stunning mix of folk myth and starved contemporary lives—as Hoffman again displays a unique ability to dignify a certain brand of obsession (Billy the Kid in a Camero—made believable) and to dramatize the awakening of a slumbering consciousness.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Sexually charged…almost hypnotic.” Publishers Weekly

“Memorable…striking in its emotional implications.” Booklist