The Collected Novels Volume Two

Four lyrical novels, including the New York Times–bestselling Seventh Heaven, from one of our "most interesting novelists" (Jane Smiley, New York Times). As Newsweek said of her novel Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman has a "gift for touching ordinary life as if with a wand, to reveal how extraordinary life really is." Whether in an ancient tribe of female warriors or a sleepy Long Island suburb in the late 1950s, the novels in this collection carve out a piece of that uniquely Hoffmanesque landscape—somewhere between magic and reality, the mythical and the mundane. The Foretelling: The "spare, compelling coming-of-age story" of Rain, born out of sorrow but destined to lead her tribe of Amazon warriors (Kirkus Reviews). White Horses: A "haunting" story about the powerful impact the fairy-tale fantasies of girlhood have on a young woman as she struggles with growing up and accepting the truth about her family (The New Yorker). Angel Landing: An explosion at a nuclear power plant changes the lives of Natalie, a therapist; her activist boyfriend, Carter; her eccentric aunt Minnie; and the man who walks into her office with an incredible confession to make in a novel that is Alice Hoffman at her "heartbreaking best" (The Washington Post). Seventh Heaven: The arrival of a divorced mother and her two young sons transforms a Long Island suburb during the summer of 1959, in a novel that's "part American Graffiti, part early Updike" (The New York Times).