Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams when they sleep. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window on the future - a future that she might not want to see. In The Probable Future this vivid and intriguing cast of characters confronts a haunting past - and a very current murder - against the evocative backdrop of small-town New England. By turns chilling and enchanting, The Probable Future chronicles the Sparrows's legacy as young Stella struggles to cope with her disturbing clairvoyance. Her potential to ruin or redeem becomes unbearable when one of her premonitions puts her father in jail, wrongly accused of homicide. Yet this ordeal also leads Stella to the grandmother she was forbidden to meet and to a historic family home full of talismans from her ancestors. Poignant, arresting, unsettling, The Probable Future showcases the lavish literary gifts that have made Alice Hoffman one of America's most treasured writers. Alice Hoffman is the author of fifteen acclaimed novels, most recently Blue Diary. She lives outside Boston.
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Alice Hoffman
Nascida em Nova Iorque, e criada em Long Island, Hoffman se formou na Universidade de Stanford. Seu primeiro emprego foi na editora Doubleday, que posteriormente publicou dois de seus romances. Autora do livro "Da Magia à Sedução", que mais tarde se tornaria filme, Ela escreveu o roteiro do filme "Indepence Day", de 1983, estrelado por Kathleen Quinlan e Dianne Wiest. Hoffman vive atualmente em Nova Iorque e Boston, com seu marido. Após o tratamento do câncer de mama no Hospital Mount Auburn, em Cambridge, ela ajudou a fundar o hospital do Centro Hoffman da mama.
53 Livros
93 Seguidores
Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos