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`Wuthering Heights' updated for the '90s

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19970928
Author:JOCELYN MCCLURG

Here on Earth By Alice Hoffman. Putnam. $23.95. Alice Hoffman has pulled off a neat trick with Here on Earth, a '90s version of Wuthering Heights. Emily Bronte's 150-year-old gothic classic may be the inspiration, but Hoffman practices her own particular brand of magic, and Here on Earth is one of her best novels.

Obsessive love, cruelty, hatred, revenge - the caldron of emotions whipped to a frenzy in Wuthering Heights - might seem a strange brew for Hoffman. And yet in many ways Here on Earth (Putnam, $23.95, 293 pp.) is the logical next step for a novelist whose previous books (among ...

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