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Blackbird House

From the great May storm in 1778, when John Hadley and his sons slip the British blockade off the coast of Massachusetts, the lives of the inhabitants of the wooden farmhouse on the cape weave around each other, right up to the present. Young Isaac Hadley is more interested in his pet blackbird than in helping to build the house; and Violet, a century later, with her own ghostly bird, finds that it's easy enough to trick a learned man, though harder to catch one. By the 1950s, the farmhouse is part of a community of steady men and wayward boys, and women who make jam but still feel the ghostly breath of Coral Hadley. As a second century draws to a close, the house can barely hold all its ghosts - but the tragedies are not over.

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  • "From the great May storm in 1778, when John Hadley and his sons slip the British blockade off the coast of Massachusetts, the lives of the inhabitants of the wooden farmhouse on the cape weave around each other, right up to the present. Young Isaac Hadley is more interested in his pet blackbird than in helping to build the house; and Violet, a century later, with her own ghostly bird, finds that it's easy enough to trick a learned man, though harder to catch one. By the 1950s, the farmhouse is part of a community of steady men and wayward boys, and women who make jam but still feel the ghostly breath of Coral Hadley. As a second century draws to a close, the house can barely hold all its ghosts - but the tragedies are not over."@en
  • "Stories of the occupants of a small Cape Cod farmhouse from colonial times to modern day."@en
  • "An evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years. In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet: Violet, a brilliant girl who is in love with books and with a man destined to betray her; Lysander Wynn, attacked by a halibut as big as a horse, certain that his life is ruined until a boarder wearing red boots arrives to change everything; Maya Cooper, who does not understand the true meaning of the love between her mother and father until it is nearly too late. From the time of the British occupation of Massachusetts to our own modern world, family after family's lives are inexorably changed, not only by the people they love but by the lives they lead inside Blackbird House. These interconnected narratives are as intelligent as they are haunting, as luminous as they are unusual. Inside Blackbird House more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives. The past both dissipates and remains contained inside the rooms of Blackbird House, where there are terrible secrets, inspired beauty, and, above all else, a spirit of coming home."@en
  • "Presents a collection of interconnecting narratives about a number of interesting and intriguing people who live at Blackbird House in Cape Cod, Massachusetts during the British occupation in the eighteenth century."
  • "Presents a series of interlinking stories that capture the lives and fortunes of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over the course of two centuries."
  • "From the great May storm in 1778 when John Hadley and his sons slip the British blockade off the coast of Massachusetts only to disappear at sea, the lives of the inhabitants of the wooden farmhouse on the cape, stranded amid fields of sweet peas and wild fruit vines and red pear trees, coil and weave around each other, right up to the present. Young Isaac Hadley is more interested in his pet blackbird and the star charts in The Practical Navigator than in helping to build the house; and Violet, a century later, with her stained face and her own ghostly bird, reads the same book, and finds that it's easy enough to trick a learned man, though harder to catch one ... Larkin Howard is ready to sell his soul to buy the farm, but meets a woman who hears the whales cry on the beach; while in another century the young Farrell boy sees more than he should on a snowy night ... and the pond out back is still dark and unforgiving beneath its deceptively golden lilies. By the 1950s, the farmhouse is part of a community of steady men and wayward boys, and women who make jam but still feel the ghostly breath of Cora Hadley, with her green fingers. As a second century draws to a close and summer visitors from the cities take over the countryside, the house can barely hold all its ghosts, but the tragedies are not over ... With a sense of place that is uncanny, and vividly real characters whose lives don't run smooth and whose stories loop together across space and time, this is a remarkable, haunting and accomplished work from a favourite novelist."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"

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  • "Дом черного дрозда"
  • "Blackbird House / S"
  • "Dom chernogo drozda"
  • "Dom chernogo drozda = Blackbird house"
  • "Blackbird House"
  • "Blackbird House"@en
  • "Das Haus der Amseln : Roman"
  • "Blackbird house"
  • "Blackbird house"@en
  • "Blackbird house : book club in a bag"@en

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