num_pages: 224
description: Vonny lives on the island of Martha's Vineyard with her husband Andre and son Simon. Their neighbour Elizabeth, a woman in her seventies, falls from an upstairs window and her granddaughter Jody is summoned to nurse her through her convalescence. So the players are assembled for a magical story of love and loneliness, of terror and human frailty, of the mystery and grace of ordinary experience. Alice Hoffman's ability to fuse the domestic and the mythic in a narrative of such gentle yet magnetic force confirms her stature as one of the most gifted of American novelists.
language: English
title: Illumination Night
titlecomplete: Illumination Night
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Contemporary, Adult, Literary Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Literature, Novels, Audiobook
ratings_count: 8507
places: Massachusetts, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
publisher: Putnam Adult