Practical Magic
By: Alice Hoffman
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780425152492
Subjects: Occult fiction; Women; Fiction
Description: Practical Magic is a tale of two sisters, Gillian and Sally Owens, brought up by their two elderly guardian aunts in a world of spells and exotica from which they eventually escape - one by running away, the other by marrying - but which never escapes from them. Many years go by before strange circumstances thrust them together again, and again they are in a world that blends the mundane and the mysterious, the familiar and the fantastic, the normal and the numinous. Three generations of Owens women are then united in an experience of unexpected insight and revelation, teaching all of them that the perceptions provided by what is called the magical are rare and wonderful endowments.
Notes: Originally published in hardcover 1995, by G.P. Putnam & Sons.