num_pages: 252
description: Deux soeurs orphelines, Gillian et Sally Owen, sont élevées par leurs tantes, vieilles filles un peu sorcières, dans leur maison de Magnolia Street. À l'ombre du vieux porche ourlé de lierre, au milieu des meubles en merisier parfumé, les deux fillettes grandissent dans un univers enchanté, au gré des superstitions et des sorts improvisés par leurs parentes. Puis vient l'adolescence et les deux hirondelles se débarrassent du passé : Gillian la blonde s'enfuit en galante compagnie, et Sally la brune, par trop sérieuse, se marie. Elles se soustraient en apparence aux pouvoirs des femmes Owen, mais la magie rôde encore. Et, lorsque des années plus tard SaIly découvre une paire de couteaux croisés sur la table de la cuisine, elle en devine le présage. L'arrivée de sa soeur, avec sur les bras un bien encombrant bagage et à ses trousses une foule d'ennuis, confirme ses soupçons. Amants en cavale, enquêtes policières et nuits torrides forment alors l'ordinaire de ce cocktail épicé, Hoffman écrit comme on jette un sort. Une ensorcelante et noire comédie.English description:For most adults, fairy tales are among the childish things we've put away. Alice Hoffman, however, feels differently. Practical Magic starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries, Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town, ever since their ancestor arrived, rich, independent, and soon accused of theft: "And then one day, a farmer winged a crow in his cornfield, a creature who'd been stealing from him shamelessly for months. When Maria Owens appeared the very next morning with her arm in a sling and her white hand wound up in a white bandage, people felt certain they knew the reason why." The aunts are daily ostracized by the same upstanding citizens who sneak to their house at night for magical love cures. To the sisters they are for the most part benevolently absent, though their bell, book, and candle routine makes life a torment for Gillian, beautiful and blonde and lazy, and Sally, who's all too responsible. But when one of the aunts' cures works too well, ending as a curse, the dangers of real love become all too clear. In Hoffman's world being bewitched, bothered, and bewildered is no mere metaphor--and neither is desire. The elbows of one enamored man pucker a linoleum counter, another walks around with singed cuffs. It's difficult to catch the author's power in brief quotes. She needs space and increment to build her exquisite variations of vision and reality, her matter-of-fact announcements of the preternatural. Practical Magic again and again makes one recall the thrill of hearing at bedtime, "Now will I a tale unfold..."--Kerry Fried
language: French
title: Drôles de meurtres en famille : roman
titlecomplete: Drôles de meurtres en famille : roman
characters: Kylie Owens, Antonia Owens, Gillian Owens, Sally Owens
genres: Audiobook, Adult, Magic, Magical Realism, Fiction, Romance, Chick Lit, Fantasy, Paranormal, Witches
ratings_count: 123158
places: Massachusetts
series: Practical Magic
publisher: FLAMMARION