| Practical Magic Contributor(s): Hoffman, Alice (Author), Hoffman, Alice (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0425190374 ISBN-13: 9780425190371 Publisher: Berkley Books OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2003 Annotation: From the bestselling author of "Blue Diary" comes a novel that reveals what happens when magic competes with real love. At the heart of this work are Gillian and Sally Owens, whose conjuring spinster aunts raised them not with square meals and curfews but with magic spells and respect for the powers of nature. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 94047013 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.64 lbs) 286 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - New Age |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 105346 Reading Level: 6.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 14.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: *25th Anniversary Edition*--with an Introduction by the Author! The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic and Magic Lessons. For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One will do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back--almost as if by magic... "Splendid...Practical Magic is one of [Hoffman's] best novels, showing on every page her gift for touching ordinary life as if with a wand, to reveal how extraordinary life really is."--Newsweek "[A] delicious fantasy of witchcraft and love in a world where gardens smell of lemon verbena and happy endings are possible."--Cosmopolitan
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