Practical Magic
Author | : Alice Hoffman |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2002 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780099429173 |
ISBN-13 | : 0099429179 |
Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Download or read book Practical Magic written by Alice Hoffman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two hundred years, the Owens women had been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town. And Gillian and Sally endured that fate as well: As children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One would do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they shared, even into adulthood, brought them back--almost as if by magic...