Note: Opinions expressed in reviews and articles on this site are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of BookLoons.Through these interconnected narratives more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives. But more importantly, it gave Hoffman the impetus for writing Blackbird House. What they did with their lives is the meat of the story, while the house looks on as a benign participant.Īpparently, the author found this very house on Cape Cod and she and her hsuband restored it. Though run-down, this house gave something to each who lived there. The story winds its way through the diverse inhabitants of the old house, ending in the modern day. Lysander Winn was attacked by a giant halibut and from then on pulled the big fish's teeth from his body. There's Violet (with a birthmark on her cheek) who looked for nothing in life but found love. Though the novel covers two hundred years, it is a love story - an account of people who face often insumountable odds to pull their lives together through love.
Rather it enhances the emotions of her readers to pull us more tightly into the unfolding legacy of the house and its owners. The delicacy of Hoffman's prose is not blunted by the tragedies that enfold the occupants of this dilapidated house. One son's pet blackbird soars through the pages, tying the intervening years together.
He went to sea one last time, with his two sons, to earn enough money to see them through the winter months. The house was built by John Hadley, a farmer who wanted nothing more than to work his land and care for his family. The author's beautifully written descriptions of the house and the sweet-pea and blueberry laden fields bring tears to the eyes of anyone who appreciates the beauty in nature. The farmhouse itself is the protagonist in this finely woven tale and the people who reside there over the years are only passing players. Blackbird House is an account, told in vignettes, of the two-hundred year-old history of a ramshackle farmhouse on the outer reaches of Cape Cod. Alice Hoffman, author of sixteen acclaimed and best-selling novels as well as five books for children, has taken a departure from her usual work.
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