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by: Alice Hoffman
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425168707
ISBN: 0425168700
Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: December 01, 1999
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Release Date: December 13, 1999
Sales Rank: 189482
Studio: Berkley Trade
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Product Description:
This novel from the bestselling author of Practical Magic and Turtle Moon tells the story of two women--one young, unmarried, and far from home as she awaits the birth of her first child, the other a mother who lost her daughter long ago...
'One of the best novels to come out of the United States in a decade.'-- Annie Dillard
'An intimate, lovely novel' (People) from the New York Times bestselling author of Here on Earth.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - I agree with the disappointed readers....
I'm also a big Alice Hoffman fan & was looking forward to reading this particularly as my daughter is currently carrying my second granddaughter- I was even looking forward to recommending it to her but after slogging my way thru this depressing mess I pitched it into the "book trade bag" for the 2nd hand shop and warned her against it.No expectant mom should read this!
Lila goes insane & no one manages to notice or get her help. Rae finally finds her own strength and then we are ... Read More
Rating:  - Wonderful characterizations; sad and hopeless story
Alice Hoffman writes so beautifully, even of tragedy and deep sadness, exposing raw emotions and mystical feelings of her characters. I have very mixed feelings about this book - on one hand, the author's amazing talent makes a strong impression. This was a story of loneliness and I'm left with a rather empty sense of wondering what happened after I read the final page, as the story seemed to end rather abruptly without neatly tying up many loose ends. Every book I read these days seems to be about ... Read More
Rating:  - a haunting story
This is the fourth of Alice Hoffman's books that I have read in recent months, and I found Fortune's Daughter to be a beautifully written portrayal of two women coping with longing, loss, and letting go. Unlike many novels where romances drive the plotline, in Fortune's Daughter, the central relationships are between mothers and daughters -- real mothers, both through birth and adoption, and surrogates chosen by lonely young women in need of support. Hoffman's judicious use of magical realism heightens ... Read More
Rating: - quite depressing
When I first started reading the book I did not know what to expect but I felt the book got worse as I read more and more. I found the book to be quite depressing none the less. The story is about a young woman named Rae and a fortune teller name Lila. Rae had run away from home and an early age with her boyfriend Jessup. When Rae tells Jessup that she is pregnant he decides that he is not ready to be a father and leaves his pregnant girlfriend so he can pursue his job in the movies. Lila the other character ... Read More
Rating: - Mystical
Fortunes Daughter is about Rae, a young, unmarried girl who is awaiting the birth of her child and Lila, a fortune-teller with no interest in the future who lost her child when she was a young, unmarried girl.
Rae and Lilas lives, fates and futures intertwine as each tries to make peace with the past and become a better person for the future.
Not knowing the what the book was really about, Lilas fortune telling, visions, nightmares, spirituality stuff was different then what I would normally ... Read More
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