![]() ![]() They'll also appreciate Hoffman's skill at evoking time and place through the senses. ![]() ![]() Readers will relish the history of the Cape and the United States that serve as occasional backdrop for the stories. The novel is Cape Cod through and through. "Blackbird House" is set on Cape Cod, in an unnamed village surrounded by trees. Yet another new book, "Moondog," co-written with her son, Wolfe Martin, 16, is due out soon.Īlthough she spends her winters in Cambridge, Hoffman is tied to Wellfleet by her own antique home. ![]() She has also written five books for children and many essays. "Blackbird House" is Hoffman's 17th novel. Through the literary voice of novelist Alice Hoffman, "Blackbird House" tells its story, explaining its origins, lamenting its losses and celebrating its survival in the face of the modern desire to alter or remove such sentinels of the past. Such a house - say those who love old houses - has a life of its own, separate from the people who inhabit it. You can tell by looking at it that it began as a small house, then grew over time into a hybrid - a kitchen added on here, a bedroom there. It's off a narrow lane outside of town, and its dirt driveway leads to a clapboard house that appears rooted to the land. If you've ever driven the truly back roads of Cape Cod, you've seen Blackbird House. ![]()
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