Announced on March 6, 1998
About the Book
Learn more about the spellbinding tale that asks the age-old question: How do you survive a love that consumes?
In her most ambitious novel to date, Alice Hoffman delivers a spellbinding tale of love and obsession.
The remarkable fiction of Alice Hoffman has the power to work magic, and as Newsweek says, "The real spell is the one cast by Hoffman's splendid writing." Author of the best-selling novels Seventh Heaven, Turtle Moon and Practical Magic, Hoffman now creates her most glorious fictional world. The New Yorker has called Hoffman "a dreamy and mesmerizing storyteller," and never has she had a more seductive story to tell.
Here on Earth is the dramatic and lyrical accounting of the joys of love, as well as the destruction love can release. The riveting themes of Wuthering Heights resonate beneath the surface, and a dangerous question is raised: Can a love that consumes you survive? Or perhaps more important, can anyone survive a love that consumes? Erotic, devastating, compelling, this is without a doubt Alice Hoffman's most unforgettable novel.
Alice Hoffman's Biography
Alice Hoffman is the author of 11 other novels: Property Of, The Drowning Season, Angel Landing, White Horses, Fortune's Daughter, Illumination Night, At Risk, Seventh Heaven, Turtle Moon, Second Nature and Practical Magic. Born in New York City and raised on Long Island, Hoffman graduated from Adelphi University and received a master's degree from Stanford University, where she was a Mirrieless Fellow. She currently lives near Boston with her family and her dogs.
Read about the author of Here on Earth turned a neglected cottage into a haven for creative energy
"Written with great wisdom and compassion, Here on Earth is Alice Hoffman's most powerful and moving novel to date and one of the finest fictional explorations of family love, and all those forces that threaten to undermine it..."
— The Washington Post Book World
"She turns the mundane happenings of life into lyrical prose."
— Chicago Sun-Times
"Alice Hoffman exhibits a way with words that can leave readers breathless and turn other writers green with envy."
— Denver Post
"Alice Hoffman's special genius is evoking extraordinary tales from ordinary places. Her small towns and suburbs are filled with magic both dangerous and healing."
— Rocky Mountain News
Get more resources on Here on Earth, an Oprah's Book Club selection.
View the Complete Oprah's Book Club List.
Learn more about the spellbinding tale that asks the age-old question: How do you survive a love that consumes?
In her most ambitious novel to date, Alice Hoffman delivers a spellbinding tale of love and obsession.
The remarkable fiction of Alice Hoffman has the power to work magic, and as Newsweek says, "The real spell is the one cast by Hoffman's splendid writing." Author of the best-selling novels Seventh Heaven, Turtle Moon and Practical Magic, Hoffman now creates her most glorious fictional world. The New Yorker has called Hoffman "a dreamy and mesmerizing storyteller," and never has she had a more seductive story to tell.
Here on Earth is the dramatic and lyrical accounting of the joys of love, as well as the destruction love can release. The riveting themes of Wuthering Heights resonate beneath the surface, and a dangerous question is raised: Can a love that consumes you survive? Or perhaps more important, can anyone survive a love that consumes? Erotic, devastating, compelling, this is without a doubt Alice Hoffman's most unforgettable novel.
Alice Hoffman's Biography
Alice Hoffman is the author of 11 other novels: Property Of, The Drowning Season, Angel Landing, White Horses, Fortune's Daughter, Illumination Night, At Risk, Seventh Heaven, Turtle Moon, Second Nature and Practical Magic. Born in New York City and raised on Long Island, Hoffman graduated from Adelphi University and received a master's degree from Stanford University, where she was a Mirrieless Fellow. She currently lives near Boston with her family and her dogs.
Read about the author of Here on Earth turned a neglected cottage into a haven for creative energy
"Written with great wisdom and compassion, Here on Earth is Alice Hoffman's most powerful and moving novel to date and one of the finest fictional explorations of family love, and all those forces that threaten to undermine it..."
— The Washington Post Book World
"She turns the mundane happenings of life into lyrical prose."
— Chicago Sun-Times
"Alice Hoffman exhibits a way with words that can leave readers breathless and turn other writers green with envy."
— Denver Post
"Alice Hoffman's special genius is evoking extraordinary tales from ordinary places. Her small towns and suburbs are filled with magic both dangerous and healing."
— Rocky Mountain News
Get more resources on Here on Earth, an Oprah's Book Club selection.View the Complete Oprah's Book Club List.
Published 03/06/1998
