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It marks the beginning of what promises to be an indelible literary career for cara hoffman. Set in a rural community steeped in silence and denial, so much pretty explores all parents greatest fear, that their child will be hurt. Cara hoffman not only discovers the heart of darkness in small town haeden, but brilliantly dissects it. Hoffmans debut tells the tale of a series of horrific events that take place in haeden, a small town in upstate new york, drawing on multiple perspectives to. Cara hoffman when she disappeared from her rural hometown, wendy white was a sweet, familyoriented girl, who had recently moved out on her own. Michael goetz library learning commons teachers book. So much pretty is the exploration of violence, vengeance, and the loss of. So much pretty book by cara hoffman official publisher page. The material is a melange of filed statements, oneperson interviews, school essays, diary entries. Cara hoffman is the author of the internationally critically acclaimed novel so much pretty. Each week, our editors select the one author and one book they believe to be most worthy of your attention and highlight them in our pro connect email alert. The disappearance and murder of nineteenyearold wendy white is detailed through the eyes of journalist stacy flynn and a host of other richly drawn.

So much pretty book by cara hoffman official publisher. So much pretty is a haunting, gloomy novel that defies genre it is one part crime thriller, one part ambitious novel, one part prose poem. School library journal hoffman takes on the poverty, drug abuse, environmental disasters and violence against women that are endemic to. Cara hoffman on be safe, i love you the truth behind so much pretty cara hoffman shares so much pretty about the author cara hoffman is the author of the critically acclaimed novels so much pretty, be safe i love you, and now, running. Johns university, goddard college, columbia university, and oxford university, where she lectured on antisocial masculinity for. Cara hoffmans novel is an interesting read on multiple levels and although this is not a book that will appeal to everyone, i still have pleasure in. Hoffman ambitiously mines fertile, controversial ground and asks a lot of tough, unanswerable questions. Cara hoffman the pipers are a family built on optimism. Listen to so much pretty audiobook by cara hoffman.

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Hoffmans debut novel takes readers to the unsexy world of rural new york and a. Johns university, goddard college, columbia university, and oxford university, where she lectured on antisocial masculinity for the rhodes global scholars symposium. Claire and gene moved with their precocious daughter alice to haeden, new york, for a fresh start. In her fearless first novel, so much pretty, cara hoffman demolishes our illusions about country life by addressing the problems of poverty, domestic abuse. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact. Buy this book in this remarkable debut, hoffman addresses serious. She has won a new york state foundation for the arts fellowship for. Hoffman is the author of the critically acclaimed novels running, so much pretty and be safe i love you. She has written for the new york times, marie claire, salon, and national public radio, and is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades including a folio prize nomination, and a sundance institute global filmmaking award. March 15, 2011 tea obreht makes her sparkling debut with the folkloric tigers wife, and another new author, cara hoffman, holds her own with the creepy but elegant so much pretty.

So much pretty is a haunting story filled with characters who are unfulfilled in their lives and their dreams. So much pretty is the ugliest book i have read in years and i couldnt put it down. In cara hoffmans debut novel, so much pretty, this jarring disconnect is one of the storys most intriguing undercurrents the novel effectively frames a compelling murder mystery with provocative, troubling issues, exploring adolescent violence, the victimization of women, revenge, and societal pressure to favor the good of the community over the rights of the individual. Lauren clay didnt follow the rest of the cream of her high school graduating class into college. Claire and gene moved with their precocious, beguiling daughter alice to haeden, new york for a fresh start. Strange and shocking and sad hoffmans language is so deft and precise. So much pretty is everything i love in a novel dark, fascinating, beautifully written, impossible to put down. It happens all the time a woman goes missing, a family mourns. So much pretty by cara hoffman so much pretty weaves the stories of wendy, a young woman who disappears from a small town. Cara hoffman is the author of the critically acclaimed novels so much pretty, be safe i love you, and now, running. On its most fundamental level, so much pretty is the story of alice piper and her parents, from the time of her birth through her midteens. So much pretty, a first novel by cara hoffman, goes there. She has won a new york state foundation for the arts fellowship for her work on the aesthetics of violence and its impact on children and has been a visiting writer at st.

Hoffmans book, so much pretty provides a very good description of rural community life while depicting some of the more negative aspects of rural values and the difficulties of being a new resident read outsider which can mean living in a dual area less than 20 years or a whole lifetime. But it also examines a second, equally troubling question. There were moments when i wept, when i cursed the dream that came true that we would have a daughter. She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, so much pretty 2011, be safe, i love you 2014, and running 2017. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Stacy, a reporter who becomes obsessed with the case. Its an inquiry into ethical conduct in an age of moral ambiguity. Cara hoffmans novel is an interesting read on multiple levels and although this is not a book that will appeal to everyone, i still have pleasure in recommending this book to anyone willing to take a risk. She teaches writing and literature at bronx community college and lives in new york city. So much awful packed into a book that makes so little sense. Hoffmans so much pretty, 2011 latest novel centers on a female soldier who comes home to a reality in which she feels alienated and out of sync. So much pretty by cara hoffman sleep had won out at last. Read so much pretty a novel by cara hoffman available from rakuten kobo. Thirteen hundred women are killed every year in the united states by boyfriends or husbands.