The Third Angel Pdf is a Contemporary Magical Realism novel written by the talented Alice Hoffman.
The Third Angel Book Summary
In The Third Angel, Hoffman weaves a magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men: Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sister’s fiancé. Frieda Lewis, a doctor’s daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill-fated rock star. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex-husband. At the heart of the novel is Lucy Green, who blames herself for a tragic accident she witnessed at the age of twelve, and who spends four decades searching for the Third Angel–the angel on earth who will renew her faith.
Brilliantly evoking London’s King’s Road, Knightsbridge, and Kensington while moving effortlessly back in time, The Third Angel is a work of startling beauty about the unique, alchemical nature of love.
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The Third Angel pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Crown; 1st edition (April 8, 2008)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0307393852
- ISBN-13 : 978-0307393852
- Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.75 x 1 x 9.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,443,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,206 in Deals in Books
- #10,761 in Psychological Fiction (Books)
- #65,302 in Literary Fiction (Books)
- Customer Reviews: 4.3 out of 5 stars 598 ratings
The Third Angel Book Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars The Ghost of Michael Macklin
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 16, 2008
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This latest offering by Ms. Hoffman is a generational piece whose roots are in the 1950s. The backdrop for most of the story is the Lion Park hotel in London, a second-rate hotel that is haunted.
Our first encounter with sisters Maddie and Allie uncovers a betrayal by the younger sister who lives a care-free existence based on the fact that she believes that she was an unloved child. Allie, the older sister, has pretty much done what was expected of her because she has always been the caretaker; first when her mother had cancer and later when her fiance suffers from the same disease. She realizes only too late that she truly loves her fiance and moves swiftly to makes things right only to lose him too.
Freida, the fiance’s mother, takes up the middle of the book. Her story is set in the 1960s and brought back for this reader ‘the look’ that was so popular then in London: overly made-up eyes, short mini-skirts, high boots, swingy music, free love, etc. Hoping to escape from the dreariness of a rural youth she makes her way to the Lion Park hotel where she works as a maid. Soon, though, she becomes the muse for a rock-star wanna-be who is hooked on drugs and has a very Paris Hilton-like girlfriend. In the end, Freida puts all of the very trendy and drug-filled life behind her and returns to her rural home where she marries the boyfriend who had gone on to college. She goes on to nursing school herself and lives a very fulfilling life in spite of the ghostly happenings that populated her time working at the Lion Park.
The thread that sews it all together is Lucy Green. Lucy is the mother of the two young women we first met at the outset of the story. Inadvertently she is the one who caused the problems that have brought about the haunting of the Lion Park’s seventh floor. Having witnessed the deaths of the people involved she withdraws to a secret place inside herself just as she did when her own mother passed away. It takes love in all its simple complexities to bring Lucy into her own once more.
This book is a very easy read despite the complexities of the characters we meet. I read it in two sittings and would have accomplished it in one had I not fallen asleep at nearly two in the morning. I give this story four stars simply because I’ve enjoyed some of Ms. Hoffman’s other offerings more.
Note: you’re bound to fall in love with Millie.
4.0 out of 5 stars Mourning is the price of love
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 15, 2022
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So deeply heartfelt, crushing even at times. There are so many different types of true love. To have any of them is a gift, but comes at price.
4.0 out of 5 stars Love the one you are with
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 7, 2011
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This is the second Alice Hoffman book I have read and I liked “The Third Angel”. It started off with a myopic bratty young woman (Maddy) who falls in love (lust?) with her sister’s fiance, Paul but her sister Allie does not love Paul (or does she?). I found this part of the book tedious and soul sucking…
However in the hotel that Maddy stays in for her sister’s wedding in England appears to be haunted!!! This immediately caught my attention. The story weaves around Maddy, Allie, their mother and Paul’s mother and how the two women of the older generation connected (unknown at present time) to a tragic murder. Was this really a murder? Was this MORE? Is this the ghost?
I felt like I needed to keep notes on who was who and what they did but finally by the end things become more clear as there is a fascinating ending that did not leave me sad at all (as compared to other reviewers). Now I will argue that this book is not nearly as brillant and well written as Hoffman’s “The Red Garden” but this book was entertaining and thought provoking.
It was fun to escape to see what London was like in the sixties and how paths cross innocently enough to recross again in the future. This book also showed me that things are NEVER what they seem to be–from Paul to the local drunk.
About Alice Hoffman Author Of The Third Angel Pdf Book
Alice Hoffman Author Of The Third Angel Pdf is the author of thirty works of fiction, including Practical Magic, The Dovekeepers, Magic Lessons, and, most recently, The Book of Magic. She lives in Boston. Visit her website: www.alicehoffman.com
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