Turtle Moon
by Alice Hoffman
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Author: Alice HoffmanEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-06-01
ISBN: 042513699X
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Berkley
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Book Review: A Moon Above the Rest
Summary: 4 Stars
Abandon your stark reality. Leave behind your job, your hobbies, and your responsibilities for about 250 pages and come to Verity, FLorida, where, "Every May, when the sea turtles begin their migration across West Main Street, mistaking the glow of street lights for the moon, people go a little bit crazy," Enjoy May. In Alice Hoffman's "Turtle Moon" we are presented with a town so full of hopeless outsiders and restless natives that each character has a story to tell and each finds his/her place among this compelling surrealistic story. With solid characters which possess histories beautifully illustrated and detailed, human relatioships are explored enough to provide a certain insight into such mortal meddlings but not an excess of such so as to drown the work in sentimentality. When a woman is murdered and her infant daughter missing, suspicions arise around a 12 year old hoodlum who disappears at the same time. The rest of the narrative follows the mother of this pre-teen and a police officer set to track him down. Under the May moomlight events proceed and things emerge from each person in the town yet the book keeps from falling into a meldramtic saga. In direct contrast, Britain's periodical, the "Independent on Sunday" claimed Hoffman's work to be a ". . . psychological thriller. . . " but this is wrong, too. Instead, "Turtle Moon" lies between the two concrete terms, effectively combining an almost dreamlike trance with suspensful conflicts. The hazy atmosphere in which most of the novel takes place can be compared to Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" in way of the surrealist nature that surrounds some of the characters. While no one within the pages stands to be immortal, an angel falls in love and an unfavorable man cries stones in his childhood. An important point to mention here is that none of this could take place if it weren't for the setting of Verity and the impressive protrayal which almost causes you to feel the heat and humidity radiating from the Florida sky. Perhaps one fault to be found in this work lies in the suspicion that the plotline becomes a little too coincendental toward the end which can lead us to believe that Hoffman is perhaps acting in excess as she tries for a climactic finale. However, the fact remains that if it weren't for coincedences, there wouldn't be much of a book in any case, so a little forgiveness can be issued here. As an escape book written for women by a woman, things work well in "Turtle Moon". Characters develop, plot intrigues, and setting haunts us if for nothing more than approximately 250 pages. But then again, isn't all we need?
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