by Alice Hoffman · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266028783
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«La ville qui avait peur d'une enfant», a contemporary fiction novel by Alice Hoffman, in paperback (221 pages, in French).
The Farrell family, a middle-class family in a small New England town, consists of Ivan, an astronomer; Polly, a photographer; Charlie, eight years old, a future biologist; and Amanda, eleven, a talented gymnast. Everything changes when an unimaginable tragedy shakes their home and the community.
Work originally published in English as At Risk (1988); this French edition appeared in 1990.
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction and magical realism, especially those looking for family stories with a dramatic backdrop.
Alice Hoffman is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name and went on to spawn a media franchise. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.
