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Original Title:	The Ice Queen
ISBN:	0316058599 (ISBN13: 9780316058599)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United States of America

The Ice Queen

Alice Hoffman

Hardcover | Pages: 211 pages

Rating: 3.53 | 17207 Users | 1745 Reviews

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A solitary New Jersey librarian whose favorite book is a guide to suicide methods is struck by lightning in Alice Hoffman's superb novel, The Ice Queen. Orphaned at the age of eight after angrily wishing she would never see her mother again, our heroine found herself frozen emotionally: "I was the child who stomped her feet and made a single wish and in so doing ended the whole world‹my world, at any rate." Her brother Ned solved the pain of their mother's death by becoming a meteorologist: applying reason and logic to bad weather. Eventually, he invites our heroine to move down to Florida, where he teaches at a university. Here, while trying to swat a fly, she is struck by lightning (the resulting neurological damage includes an inability to see the color red). Orlon County turns out to receive two thirds of all the lightning strikes in Florida each year, and our heroine soon becomes drawn into the mysteries of lightning: the withering of trees and landscape near a strike, the medical traumas and odd new abilities of victims, the myths of renewal. Although a recluse, she becomes fascinated by a legendary local farmer nicknamed Lazarus Jones, said to have beaten death after a lightning strike: to have seen the other side and come back. The burning match to her cool reserve--her personal unguided tour through Hades--Lazarus will prove to be the talisman that restores her to girlhood innocence and possibility.

Hoffman's story advances with a feline economy of language and movement--not a word spared for the color of the sky, unless the color of the sky factors into the narrative. Among the authors who have played with the fairy tale's harsh mercies (e.g. Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter), Hoffman has the closest understanding of the primal fears that drive the genre, and why, perhaps, we never outgrow fairy stories, but only learn to substitute dull, wholesome qualities like personal initiative or good timing for the elements that raise the hairs on our neck and send us scrambling for the light switch. --Regina Marler

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Title	:	The Ice Queen
Author	:	Alice Hoffman
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 211 pages
Published	:	July 1st 2009 by Little, Brown and Company (first published 2005)
Categories	:	Fiction. Magical Realism. Fantasy. Romance

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If you have experienced the kind of loss that I have experienced- and I know a lot of people have- it can nonetheless feel like no one really gets it. Well here is proof of the transformative power of death, life, and love packaged in a fairy tale. I'm wrecked like someone tore my chest cavity apart. Thank you, Alice Hoffman.

When I worked in publishing, I would often read books just out of curiosity about what the author's style was like, or what drew their fans in. One author I was familiar with, but never read, was Alice Hoffman. I recently read The Ice Queen, which is about a librarian, so hey, why not.The protagonist loses her mother at age 8, for which she blames herself. She grows up into a sort of nonperson, with no friends, only a lover whom she keeps at arm's length. After the death of their grandmother,

Wow! This is quite the book to make one feel. No, FEEL! So much raw emotion and passion!Like I'd need telling about obsessive love affairs... And not so obsessive ones. And the everafters. And the blame game. And everything else. Magical thinking at its best.Q:Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment theyre spoken and you can never take them back. They bruise and bake and come back to haunt you. (c)Q:Ive made far too many wishes in my lifetime, the first when I was

Actual rating: 4.5 stars I thought this book would be my first five ⭐ novel of the year but unfortunately it lost half a star 😭I cannot get over how stunningly written this book was. It read like poetry and felt like warm honey in my mouth. I must warn y'all that whilst this book is brilliant it is very depressing! But I kinda think that is what makes it so magnificent and truly unlike anything I have ever read before. So why lose the half star? I think the ending felt kinda rushed to me and I

I think sometimes we stumble across a book that was the perfect book to read at that specific time. For whatever reason you connect to it a particularly strong way. The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman is the first book of that kind that I have read in 2019. I've finished, but I don't want to put it away yet. I found it to be very beautiful, but have to admit that I'm not sure how to convey why that was. Probably other reviews will be more helpful than this one if you are trying to decide whether or

I think we've all been asked a thousand times about our favorite books. I've always found it hard to answer and so I would mention my favorite authors instead. But then I found this book. I don't really know what happened... I think it was love at first sight. This is one of those books in which every single word matters. I know that's supposed to happen in every single novel but this book is different... each word is a precious piece in the brilliantly built puzzle that is this story. The

Frozen in misery since age eight, when the mother she wished would disappear promptly obliged by dying in a car wreck, the thirtysomething unnamed narrator of Hoffman's hypnotic new novel has spent her life avoiding meaningful human contact. As a New Jersey reference librarian, she relentlessly pursues the details of death in all its countless causes while engaging in after-hours backseat trysting with a local cop. After settling near her brother in Florida, the narrator is struck by lightning.