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The Third Angel: A Novel
by: Alice Hoffman

Editorial Review:

"Alice Hoffman is my favorite writer."
-Jodi Picoult
Alice Hoffman is one of our most beloved writers. Here on Earth was an Oprah Book Club selection. Practical Magic and Aquamarine were both bestselling books and Hollywood movies. Her novels have received mention as notable books of the year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, and People magazine, and her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, Kenyon Review, Redbook, Architectural Digest, Gourmet, and Self.
Now, in The Third Angel, Hoffman weaves a magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men: Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sister's fiancé. Frieda Lewis, a doctor's daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill-fated rock star. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex-husband. At the heart of the novel is Lucy Green, who blames herself for a tragic accident she witnessed at the age of twelve, and who spends four decades searching for the Third Angel-the angel on earth who will renew her faith.
Brilliantly evoking London's King's Road, Knightsbridge, and Kensington while moving effortlessly back in time, The Third Angel is a work of startling beauty about the unique, alchemical nature of love.
From the Hardcover edition.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

Haunting and beautiful...:

I've read many of Alice Hoffman's novels and each is a story that lingers long after the last page has been turned and the book closed. This one is particularly haunting and I've found myself doing something I rarely do -- rereading the book from the opening chapter. Skimming to a particular segment and then leafing through pages of one of the parts of this novel. The book is divided into three segments, telling the stories from the viewpoint of three very different women during significant events of their... more info

THE THIRD ANGEL contains a marvelously vast beauty:

"There was good love and there was bad love. There was the kind that helped raise a person above her failings and there was the desperate sort that struck when someone least wanted or expected it."
THE THIRD ANGEL --- Alice Hoffman's 20th novel for adults --- tells of three women in three different times, in the desperate sort of love that nearly always leads to a bad end.
In the late 1990s, Maddy Heller heads off to London for her sister's wedding. When she meets Allie's fiancé, Paul,... more info

Beautifully written, but terribly depressing:

Like another author wrote of Hoffman "I inhale everything Alice Hoffman writes"; me too. This book, like everything she writes, is so beautiful, it's art in written form, some of the passages so delicious and so moving, I feel compelled to re-read them immediately. But her writing has taken such a dark turn for me that I find it difficult to enjoy fully, as I'm left feeling terribly sad and a bit haunted. This book is one of those. Her's is still some of the best, most lyrical and spellbinding (literally)... more info

Poor Book:

Not enough character development, I did not feel empathy for any of the characters except maybe Lucy who reminded me of myself a bit at that age. I was hoping she would elaborate more on the first story about the two sisters; Allie and Maddy. It seems to me she was in a haste to connect all of the events and in my view she failed to do so by giving us what I considered irrelevant information of each character. I don't recommend it.

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