Property Of by Alice Hoffman

Property Of by Alice Hoffman

The Night of the Wolf. On the Avenue in the bleak area where New York City blends into suburbia, the Orphans, their fast Fords and their Chevys 'coated by ice and leather and white dust', prepare to engage in deadly, intricately structured games of combat. It is a world of grotesque, horrifying violence, fear, bravado and drugs, redeemed in the minds of its inhabitants by codes of honour, by chivalrous intentions and by the purity of their struggle for power, dominance, territory. This is the setting of Alice Hoffman's unsparing and unsentimental novel. Her heroine, 17 years old, quick witted yet vulnerable, falls helplessly in love with McKay, the Orphan's 22 year old president and their doomed love story is told in desperate counterpoint to the punk lyrical flippancies of throbbing car radios and jukes.

A remarkably envisioned novel, almost mythic in its cadences, hypnotic-the imagining is true, the writing lovely * New York Times *
'Highly original' * Publishers Weekly *
Showing the magic that lies below the surface of everyday life is just what we hope for in a satisfying novel, and that's what MsHoffman gives us every time' * Baltimore Sun *

Alice Hoffman is the bestselling author of many successful novels and screenplays, including Here on Earth (Oprah Book Club Choice in 1998), Illumination Nights, Turtle Moon, Practical Magic (made into a recent major film), Local Girls and The River King. She lives in Massachusetts.

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ISBN 13	9780099429197
ISBN 10	0099429195
Title	Property Of
Author	Alice Hoffman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2002-04-04
Number of pages	224
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