A favorite with teens as well as adults, she renders life's deepest mysteries immediately understandable in stories suffused with magic realism and a dreamy, fairy-tale sensibility.
Since that remarkable debut, Hoffman has carved herself a unique niche in American fiction. In 1977, when Hoffman was 25, her first novel, Property Of, was published to great fanfare. She hadn't - but immediately set to work. The story attracted the attention of legendary editor Ted Solotaroff, who asked if she had written any longer fiction. Her mentor at Stanford, the great teacher and novelist Albert Guerard, helped to get her first story published in the literary magazine Fiction. She went on to attend Stanford University's Creative Writing Center on a Mirrellees Fellowship. But the eight-hour, supervised workday was not for her, and she quit before lunch on her first day! She enrolled in night school at Adelphi University, graduating in 1971 with a degree in English. Later, she would hone this viewpoint in stories that captured the full intensity of the human experience.Īfter high school, Hoffman went to work for the Doubleday factory in Garden City. Although she felt like an outsider growing up, she discovered that these feelings of not quite belonging positioned her uniquely to observe people from a distance. Currently-lives in Boston, Massachusettsīorn in the 1950s to college-educated parents who divorced when she was young, Alice Hoffman was raised by her single, working mother in a blue-collar Long Island neighborhood.Education-B.A., Adelphi University M.A., Stanford University.Yet this ordeal also leads Stella to the grandmother she was forbidden to meet, and to an historic family home full of talismans from her ancestors. Her potential to ruin or redeem becomes unbearable when one of her premonitions puts her father in jail, wrongly accused of homicide. In Alice Hoffman's latest tour de force, this vivid and intriguing cast of characters confronts a haunting past-and a very current murder-against the evocative backdrop of small-town New England.īy turns chilling and enchanting, The Probable Future chronicles the Sparrows' legacy as young Stella struggles to cope with her disturbing clairvoyance. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window to the future-future that she might not want to see. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams when they sleep. Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts.
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