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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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Title	:	The Ice Queen
Author	:	Alice Hoffman
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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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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Well it had to happen I did not like The Ice Queen I am sorry to say it was a dark magical tale of a woman's hardships growing up with a horrible mother who abused her, unfortunately this sent triggers as I have depression & Anxiety, the woman was constantly talking about death I just had to stop I DNF due to these triggers, although miss Hoffman writes another outstanding book, it just wasn't one of my favourites of hers.

Well, I'll be damned.For years, I've been avoiding Alice Hoffman, because, you know...Sandra Bullock.As it turns out, I love her! (Alice Hoffman, that is.)(And I now officially have 50 favorite books.) *confetti*

Exquisite, I really love Alice Hoffman's writing, all that magic, beauty and love she puts into it makes it something to savor. We have to deal with a significant amount of pain in this one as well, as a little girl who is burdened with the guilt of believing that she has caused her mother's death begins the process of learning to feel again through the cataclysmic event of getting hit by lightening when she is an adult. Weather often plays a large part of Alice Hoffman's stories, it really is a

This is a book that the author wrote about 7 years ago, given to me by a friend. I have become enamored with Alice Hoffman after neglecting her books for years (I think her last two books were both exceptional). This one is essentially a modern day fairy tale, and it teeters on the fantastical throughout though deals with the very heart of human emotions. At times I had decided I would give this book only 4 stars, but Ms. Hoffman wraps it up so superbly that I decided on adding that ultimate

Audiobook.Oh my gosh! First of all I've liked the narrator/actress Nancy Travis on TV and in the few movies I've seen her in but I have never realized what a great actress she is. The bitterness, hurt, love, yearning, etc all come across so wonderfully. I am for sure going to listen to more of her audiobooks and definitely watch more of her movies. I'll have to do a search for her works and I'm probably going to be pleasantly surprised by all of the movies she's done.Now for the book. Great! A

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.

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.