- Hardcover
- Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (May 1977)
- ISBN-10: 0374238286
- ISBN-13: 978-0374238285
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
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“Like Anne Tyler, Hoffman spins a story enchantingly, with the undeniable force and vividness of a dream.” –Ms.
“She is a born storyteller.” –Entertainment Weekly
“A reader is in good hands with Alice Hoffman, able to count on many pleasures. She is one of our quirkiest and most interesting novelists.” –Jane Smiley, USA Today
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The Night of the Wolf. On the Avenue in the bleak area where New York City blends into suburbia, the Orphans, their fast Fords and their Chevys 'coated by ice and leather and white dust', prepare to engage in deadly, intricately structured games of combat. It is a world of grotesque, horrifying violence, fear, bravado and drugs, redeemed in the minds of its inhabitants by codes of honour, by chivalrous intentions and by the purity of their struggle for power, dominance, territory. This is the setting of Alice Hoffman's unsparing and unsentimental novel. Her heroine, 17 years old, quick witted yet vulnerable, falls helplessly in love with McKay, the Orphan's 22 year old president and their doomed love story is told in desperate counterpoint to the punk lyrical flippancies of throbbing car radios and jukes.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Not MY Property!,
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I didn't like this book or any of the characters and make no bones about it. I thought the protagonist, who is never given a name is a Grade-A fool.See, this stupid girl wants to be a gang deb. She has no other connections that we know of other than this guy named McKay and the gang and the girls' auxillary version of that gang. She pals around with this not too bright candy addict with the ghastly nickname of Danny the Sweet, or even worse, "The Sweet." The stupid girl sees the seamy, violent underside of life via this gang. Girls are referred to as "The Property" and are treated steps below chattel. Very enlighted thinking, eh? I did not like this book at all and cannot in good conscience recommend it.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Semi Good Book,
By Mayetis (Cincinnati, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Property Of (Mass Market Paperback)
This was a semi-good book. It just seemed the main character in was a little obsessed and aggravating. She was so klingy and annoying and it annoyed me slightly to see such a pathetic girl such as herself. But all in all the story and the plot were ok.
4.0 out of 5 stars
This is a good book!,
By Katie (OH, USA) - See all my reviews
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