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Skylight Confessions [Large Print] (Library Binding)

by Alice Hoffman (Author)

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Library Binding: 286 pages
Publisher: Center Point Large Print; Lrg edition (February 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1585479047
ISBN-13: 978-1585479047
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.7 x 2.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 454 g

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In Hoffman's 19th novel, a young woman becomes the victim of the destiny she's created, leaving behind a splintered family. On the day of her father's funeral, 17-year-old Arlyn Singer decides the first man who walks down the street will be her one love. That night, Yale senior John Moody stops to ask directions, and Arlyn and John take the first passionate steps toward what will become a marriage of heartache and mutual betrayal. After John's architect father dies, the couple moves into his Connecticut home, a glass house called the Glass Slipper, and Arlyn has an affair with a local laborer. She dies while her second child is still young, and the story forks to follow the divergent paths taken by the Moody children. Sam, the self-destructive first-born, spray paints his angst all over lower Manhattan and has a son before disappearing. Blanca, Sam's sister and the only family member he loves, moves to London and opens a bookstore. John remarries, to Cynthia, and has another daughter, but carries a family secret with him to his grave. Ghostly apparitions lend an air of dark enchantment, though the numerous dream sequences feel heavy-handed. (Jan.)
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Mare Winningham's reading is level, her delivery almost factual, providing strong roots that ground us when Hoffman leaps into moments of magical realism in telling the story of Arlyn Singer. On the day of her father's funeral, 17-year-old Arlyn waits for her true love to show up. Enter the distant John Moody, an unlikely candidate. Winningham's even tones seem to record the characters' resignation--their adjustment to a bad marriage, Arlyn's conclusion of a love affair, and her acceptance of her own death. In later parts of the audio, Winningham's steady narration records the descent of Arlyn's lost son into drugs and despair, the pain of her daughter, and the sadness of Arlyn herself, who haunts John's life and home, looking for resolution. S.W. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The properties of glass, April 6 2007

By	J. Cameron-Smith "Expect the Unexpected" (ACT, Australia) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Skylight Confessions: A Novel (Hardcover)

This is the first Alice Hoffman novel I have read, and it has given me food for thought. While some of the messages become obscured by the weight of the dead and their impact on the living, many of the characters and their struggles to move forward with their lives are believable. For me, this novel is about the differing perceptions of reality and the constraints that we each build (or adopt) for ourselves.

I felt most sympathetic to (and conversely, aggravated by) John and Sam Moody. One could not move beyond the choices he had made, the other could not make and live with the choices he needed to make. For me, these were the pivotal characters. And yet, approaching the novel from a different perspective, other messages would have been stronger.

This novel is not a particularly light read, but is can be an enlightening one. I need now to read more of Ms Hoffman's work to form a more balanced view.

Recommended, but not as a light read.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

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4.0 out of 5 stars "This is where everything else begins", April 5 2007

By	Michael Leonard "MikeonAlpha" (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Skylight Confessions: A Novel (Hardcover)

Author Alice Hoffman excels at weaving elements of fantasy and fairy tale into everyday existence. In her latest novel Skylight Confessions she traces the hopes, disappointments and loves of three generations of one family, the Moodys, and in the process, teaches us some important lessons about the endless cycles of life.

The novel begins with the character of Arlyn Singer, a girl of seventeen who is living in Long Island when her father tells her to prepare for the future. When he suddenly dies in an accident, Arlyn is set adrift until she meets a stranger who stopping to talk to her in an old Saab. "I'm lost," he says as Arlyn shivers in the cold light of her future and the light cast by this tall and attractive young man who has no idea where he is.

His name is John Moody, an architect and a self-confessed champion of quiet and order, and Arlyn equally charms him with her long red hair, despite her dreadful clothes and the freckles scattered across her skin. They inevitably sleep together, but John is suddenly plagued by nightmares, filled with disasters, wrong turns, and mistakes. Considering the dreams a bad sign, he runs away, back to New Haven, to college, and to his exams.

Arlyn however tracks him down and soon they are married and living in John's Glass Slipper, a house made of glass and steel, where Arlyn now a twenty-something woman, has two children Sam and Blanca. As Arlyn's influence eventually diminishes, a girl called Meredith becomes attracted to the Glass Slipper "where there's light everywhere and green all around," and agrees to take on the children.

Meanwhile, John is far too busy for the likes of Sam and Blanca; he sees them as fools who waste their time on squirrels and books and happiness, whilst everyday, he sees signs of something he doesn't want to see - all he's done wrong in his life. A teenage drug addict, Sam is unhappy and conflicted, constantly hung over and sick from drugs, the boy reluctant to return to a straight life.

And Meredith, who realizes that her current life is a thousand times more important and truer than the life she had led since. She sees the needle marks on Sam's arm and tries to help him, certain that she can intuit his pain. For her part, Blanca grows older, her past shrouded in secrecy, her life defined by books and fairy tales. Blanca's world is indeed divided, "the before and after, the dark and light, the real and the imagined."

Hoffman's themes are all about belonging and the choices that we are often forced to make in life, whether they may be wrong turns or not. But Skylight Confessions is also about the enormous power of love, where love can often tie you to a place from which you never wish to roam, and where death might also tie the atoms that made you to that very same place.

All of Hoffman's characters are seeking seek to understand the mysteries of life, indeed John has mysterious visions of Arlyn with her white dress and long red hair, and also young, the way they had met when they first met, when he'd gotten so lost he couldn't find his way. And Blanca stays haunted by Sam and the sometimes-difficult relationship with her father as she tries to build a life for herself far away in London.

As with all Hoffman's novels, the spirit world plays an important part in the story, with this notion of people almost trapped in time, their visions from beyond the grave providing the sudden snap, "the crack in their lives that brakes the quiet in tow..." Beautifully written, Skylight Confessions says a lot about modern families with all of their expectations and reveries, whilst also exhibiting many of those attributes that have made Hoffman's previous works so successful. Mike Leonard March 07.

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