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Second Nature

Name: Second Nature
Price: 24.00 USD
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Author: Alice Hoffman
ISBN: 9780425161630

Paperback $24.00

Published on Feb 01, 1998 | 272 Pages

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Published on Feb 01, 1998 | 272 Pages

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A suburban woman discovers her own wild spirit in this “suspenseful…dark, romantic meditation on what it means to be human”(The New Yorker) from the bestselling author of The Rules of Magic.

Robin Moore, coping with a divorce and a troubled teen-aged son, impulsively rescues a strange man from a psychiatric ward—a beautiful, uncivilized innocent who has been raised in the wilderness and possesses no more sophistication than a child. But when she brings him home to her perfectly ordered neighborhood, the events that follow cause Robin to question her wisdom and doubt her own heart—and, ultimately, to change all of her ideas about love and humanity.

“Her richest and wisest, as well as her boldest, novel to date.”—The New York Times Book Review

Praise for Second Nature

“Hoffman tells a great story. Expect to finish this one in a single, guilty sitting.”—Mirabella

“Intelligent and absorbing…a celebration of the simple, unstinting grace of human love.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“Generous, magical…Second Nature may be best read at full speed, hurtling down the mountain, as if falling in love.”—San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle

“A rich and satisfying concoction…[A] modern fairy tale, full of insights into the battle between instinct and upbringing, desire and conformity.”—Booklist

“Iridescent prose, taut narrative suspense, alluring atmosphere, vivid characters.”—Boston Sunday Globe

Author

Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including Magic Lessons: The Prequel to Practical Magic, The World That We Knew, the Reese’s Book Club selection The Rules of Magic, The Marriage of Opposites, Practical Magic, The Book of Magic, The Red Garden, the Oprah’s Book Club selection Here on Earth, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, The Dovekeepers, and The Invisible Hour. She lives near Boston.

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