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Intersecting lives, touched by an angel
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20080420
Author:"; " "Bitter Lake; "Thoreau's Laundry." Her new novel; Ann Harleman is the author of "Happiness; is "The Year She Disappeared."; out this month; Ann Harleman
Book Review
The Third Angel
By Alice Hoffman
Shaye Areheart, 278 pp., $25
The success of any novel, E.M. Forster maintained, rests on the power of the writer to bounce the reader into accepting what he says. In "The Third Angel," as in many of her previous 24 novels, Alice Hoffman sets herself a difficult task. Its menagerie of characters includes a heron, a ghost, and a hotel room. Its plot relies heavily on coincidence. Its structure is one guaranteed to put the brakes on narrative momentum.
"The Third Angel" takes the form of a triptych, moving backward in time, each section following one ...
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