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“Beautifully told.”
— People
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“Stirring, stunning…by far [her] best book.”
— Time
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“Brilliant and astonishing…Suffused with magic.
If ever a book deserved to be called ‘haunting,’ this is it. In every sense of
the word.”
— Cosmopolitan
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“Marvelously sly…[a] wonderful blend of humor, shrewdness,
and compassion.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“Part American Graffiti, part early
Updike, Seventh Heaven simultaneously chronicles the coming of
age of a group of teenagers in a Long Island town and the gradual dissolution
of their parents’ repressed, middle-class world…A parable about changing times
and changing values.”
— New York Times
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“Seamless storytelling…vivid characters…a lively
pace and plenty of surprises.”
— USA Today
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“Terrific…Seventh Heaven is one of
those rare novels so abundant with life it seems to overflow its own pages…Her
storytelling gifts are those of a master.”
— Newsweek
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“Before you know it, you’re half in love with
the ordinary people who inhabit this book; you’re seduced by their
susceptibility to the remarkable.”
— New Yorker
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“A pleasure…Seventh Heaven is not only
entertaining—it gives one new respect for tender suburban dreams.”
— Los Angeles Times Book Review
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“A consummate joy…magical.”
— Washington Post Book World
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“[A] deft blend of magical realism and
sociological truth.”
— Chicago Tribune
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“Powerful…sparkling…Seventh Heaven is
a major accomplishment.”
— Boston Globe
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“Spellbinding.”
— Boston Sunday Herald
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“Touching and evocative…Reading it can quickly
transport you to cloud nine.”
— Houston (TX) Post
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“In the full flowering of her extraordinary
talent, Hoffman has produced a wise, poignant and uplifting novel luminous with
the sensitive evocation of ordinary lives…As usual she tells more than a
compulsively readable story. She does magic, she unsettles you, and she leaves
you feeling emotionally purged and satisfied.”
— Publishers Weekly