Blackbird House Audiobook

Quotes

• “Alice Hoffman’s writing is spellbinding and not simply because of her touches of magic realism: Her unembellished prose and primary-colored descriptions recall the directness of fairy tales.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “The stories of Blackbird House are sharp and imbued with magic. Hoffman peels away layers of time, painstakingly sifting through two centuries to expose all that can occur by one field of pink sweet peas at the end of the world.”

  — USA Today

• “The landscape Alice Hoffman displays in Blackbird House is its own world altogether…Here the relationship of the characters to their surroundings is seen as a kind of magical bond, expressed in language that is both eerie and beautiful.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Sweet, sad, touching, and most of all, vibrantly real…Each tale stays true to Hoffman’s form, infused with descriptions of nature, rich emotion, and life’s complexity—each, like a fairy tale, mysterious, bewitching, and wonderful.”

  — Elle

• “Riveting…haunting…masterful.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “Blackbird House is filled with symbols of the strongest human emotions—hope, devotion, anger, pain. And these are described as beautifully and simply as nature itself.”

  — San Jose Mercury News

• “Lush, figurative language evokes epics, ballads, odes, and fairy tales. Human destiny is determined less by individual initiative or moral choice than by fate. To survive and thrive, one must pay heed, one must be attentive to season, history, spirit.”

  — Boston Globe

• “A New England historical patchwork, a literary museum…Hoffman creates many charming and intriguing people and events to carry her tale.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “[Hoffman’s] prose can cast a spell upon even the most stoic of souls, pulling them into [her] reality as easily as the tides claiming unwary swimmers…Storytelling doesn’t get any better.”

  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

• “Complex and intriguing…Hoffman’s blend of myth and local history is beguiling and uplifting.”

  — Baltimore Sun

• “Hoffman does everything right in these lyrical stories, rich with metaphor and meaning.”

  — Orlando Sentinel

• “The stories showcase Hoffman’s own magical powers of description, demonstrated here by vivid evocations of the lush natural world that springs, almost miraculously, from the sparse and sandy soil.”

  — Hartford Courant

• “Exquisite…Hoffman captures perfectly the power of place, the pull that a land and a house can exert on the imagination and the heart.”

  — Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

• “Twelve lush and lilting interconnected stories…Hoffman’s lyrical prose weaves an undeniable spell.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “This full-cast recording is the perfect production for Alice Hoffman’s linked stories of life on a two-hundred-year-old Cape Cod farm. The stories farthest removed from us in time are the most magical in genre…Hoffman fans should be delighted.”

  — AudioFile

• “[A] deeply moving achievement of lyric power.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)