{"product_id":"illumination-night-isbn-9780425183267","title":"Illumination Night","description":"\u003cb\u003eA modern chronicle of a marriage and a bittersweet exploration of an extraordinary passion from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rules of Magic\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, a festival of lanterns held each summer on Martha’s Vineyard, \u003ci\u003eIllumination Night\u003c\/i\u003e follows the lives of a young blond giant who is as beautiful as he is frightening; an old woman at the end of her life whose last mission is to save her granddaughter’s soul; a family torn apart by a wife’s fears and a husband’s unrealized desires\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eand the high school girl who comes to Martha’s Vineyard against her will, who steals husbands and cars, and who will bring everyone together in a web of yearning, sin, and ultimate redemption. Both riveting and reflective, this is a story of  “parenthood and friendship, self-protection and generosity, dream and disillusionment” (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e) that brings to light the talent that has made Alice Hoffman an acclaimed bestselling author.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eIllumination Night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Daringly mixing comedy with tragedy...[Hoffman] has created a narrative that somehow makes myth out of the sticky complexities of contemporary marriage…Her characters are branded onto one’s memory.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vivid, convincing characters...uncommon insight.”—\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] bright constellation of characters...draws the reader into the dusky, dreamy world of Alice Hoffman.”—\u003ci\u003eSt. Petersburg Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Alice Hoffman takes seemingly ordinary lives and lets us see and feel extraordinary things.”—Amy Tan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Not-so-delicate questions are raised in a wonderfully delicate way in Alice Hoffman’s latest novel...Explorations of the tangled strands of parenthood and friendship, self-protection and generosity, dream and disillusionment are made achingly vivid by Hoffman’s ability to ground them in the finely etched details of her characters’ daily lives.”—\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There is a cumulative power to \u003ci\u003eIllumination Night\u003c\/i\u003e that is wondrous...It’s enough to make one search out other books by Alice Hoffman.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reading an authentic prose stylist of high order is an uncommon privilege.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Hoffman\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of more than thirty works of fiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Hour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe World That We Knew\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePractical Magic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rules of Magic\u003c\/i\u003e (A Reese’s Book Club pick), \u003ci\u003eMagic Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Magic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHere on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e (An Oprah’s Book Club pick), and \u003ci\u003eThe Dovekeepers\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives near Boston.","brand":"Berkley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302789107941,"sku":"NP9780425183267","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780425183267.jpg?v=1767729818","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/illumination-night-isbn-9780425183267","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}