Angel Landing

by Alice Hoffman

Book Overview

The bestselling author of Practical Magic offers "an affecting love story, laced with humor" (Booklist) that tells the tale of a man and a woman, an activist and a therapist, so consumed with helping... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425166848
• ISBN13: 9780425166840
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

One of the Best Books I've Had the Pleasure of Discovering.

This was my first Alice Hoffman book and, hopefully, it won't be my last. If her other books are better than this--as noted below--then I have to be in for a serious treat! Why does the above reviewer have to regard this story as outdated? So are stories like the awful "classic" Catcher in the Rye, but that's okay? Everyone agrees on one point: the character Minnie is strong, funny, delightfully pure of heart and full of honest conviction, but I found the dark love story of Natalie Lansky and Michael Finn equally moving and with a sweet ending full of promise. I was too young to understand the era from which stories like this came, but found the characters touching and the story involving to the end. Sure, Natalie was a horrible therapist, but that was pretty much implied from the first chapter of the book, and her unethical conduct with Finn only pointed that fact out more. Beside that, if you've ever seen the awful movie The Morning After, the novel looks a lot better in comparison. Knowing something about the era in which this book was written and regarding it as a historical period piece would most likely help increase your pleasure with this particular work.

I enjoyed the excellent character development.

Although this was not my favorite novel by Alice Hoffman, it had the well-realized characters and description of place which always makes me unable to tear myself away from the stories and really care for the people in them. I did note one error in your synopsis which states that Natalie feels neglected by her husband and takes up with her patient. The character, Carter Sugarland, is her long time boyfriend, not husband, who will never make a commitment to Natalie. The synopsis makes it sound as though Natalie left her husband. This sort of review misrepresents the book and leads me to believe the writer of the synopsis did not read the book.