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Nancy Travis (narrator) and
Alice Hoffman
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Publication date
April 1, 2005
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781594830655
ISBN-10
1594830657
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.25 by 5.50 in.
Weight
0.60 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$31.98
Other format details
audio
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A solitary New Jersey librarian whose favorite book is a guide to suicide methods is struck by lightning in Alice Hoffman's superb novel, The Ice Queen. Orphaned at the age of eight after angrily wishing she would never see her mother again, our heroine found herself frozen emotionally: "I was the child who stomped her feet and made a single wish and in so doing ended the whole worldâ¹my world, at any rate."Her brother Ned solved the pain of their mother's death by becoming a meteorologist: applying reason and logic to bad weather. Eventually, he invites our heroine to move down to Florida, where he teaches at a university.Here, while trying to swat a fly, she is struck by lightning (the resulting neurological damage includes an inability to see the color red).Orlon County turns out to receive two thirds of all the lightning strikes in Florida each year, and our heroine soon becomes drawn into the mysteries of lightning: the withering of trees and landscape near a strike, the medical traumas and odd new abilities of victims, the myths of renewal.Although a recluse, she becomes fascinated by a legendary local farmer nicknamed Lazarus Jones, said to have beaten death after a lightning strike: to have seen the other side and come back.The burning match to her cool reserve--her personal unguided tour through Hades--Lazarus will prove to be the talisman that restores her to girlhood innocence and possibility.Hoffman's story advances with a feline economy of language and movement--not a word spared for the color of the sky, unless the color of the sky factors into the narrative.Among the authors who have played with the fairy tale's harsh mercies (e.g. Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter), Hoffman has the closest understanding of the primal fears that drive the genre, and why, perhaps, we never outgrow fairy stories, but only learn to substitute dull, wholesome qualities like personal initiative or good timing for the elements that raise the hairs on our neck and send us scrambling for the light switch. --Regina Marler
Editions
Hardcover
New edition from Vintage Uk (November 3, 2005)
9780701178987 | details & prices | 224 pages | List price $21.40
About: Be careful what you wish for.
About: Be careful what you wish for.
from Little Brown & Co (April 4, 2005)
9780316058599 | details & prices | 211 pages | 6.75 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $23.95
About: After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.
About: After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.
Paperback
Reissue edition from Back Bay Books (June 9, 2015)
9780316303071 | details & prices | 211 pages | 5.00 × 7.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $10.00
Reprint edition from Back Bay Books (January 3, 2006)
9780316154383 | details & prices | 211 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $14.00
About: After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.
About: After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.
CD/Spoken Word
With Nancy Travis (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Hachette Audio (January 11, 2007)
9781594836206 | details & prices | 5.25 × 5.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.34 lbs | List price $14.98
About: After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.
About: After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.
The price comparison is for this edition
With Nancy Travis (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Hachette Audio (April 1, 2005)
9781594830655 | details & prices | 5.25 × 5.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $31.98
About: After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.
About: After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Nancy Travis (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Hachette Audio (January 1, 2007)
With Nancy Travis (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Hachette Audio (April 1, 2005)
9781594830648 | details & prices | 4.25 × 6.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.36 lbs | List price $26.98
About: After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.
About: After a small town librarian survives a lightning strike, she seeks out a fellow survivor in a quest for meaning, only to begin an obsessive love affair between two opposites joined by a single common thread.
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