Description

The Reddish Backyard presents us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Boston, taking the sudden turns in its history and within our own lives.     In beautiful writing, Hoffman provides a changing view of small-town America, showing us with some 3 hundred years of enthusiasm, black secrets, devotion, and payoff in a web of stories where heroes' lives are connected by fate and by their own actions.     From the town's creator, a courageous young lady from England who doesn't have anxiety about blizzards or bears, for the young man who runs away to Nyc with just his Pet for business, the figures within The Red Garden are remarkable and vibrant: a wounded Civil War soldier who is rescued by a separate friend, a lady who fulfills a very individual historic personality, a poet who falls in love with a blind person, a mysterious visitor who involves town in the entire year when summer never arrives.     In the middle of everyone’s existence is just a mysterious garden where just red crops can develop, and where the reality can be discovered by those who care to look.     Superbly designed, glistening with miracle, The Red Garden is really as memorable as It's moving.From the Hardcover version.