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The invisible hour Cover Image Large Print Book

The invisible hour [large print] / Alice Hoffman.

Hoffman, Alice, (author.).

Summary:

"One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community -- an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly captured the pain and loss that Mia carries inside her? Through a journey of heartbreak, love, and time, Mia must abandon the rules she was raised with at the Community. As she does, she realizes that reading can transport you to other worlds or bring them to you, and that readers and writers affect one another in mysterious ways. She learns that time is more fluid than she can imagine, and that love is stronger than any chains that bind you. As a girl Mia fell in love with a book. Now as a young woman she falls in love with a brilliant writer as she makes her way back in time. But what if Nathaniel Hawthorne never wrote The Scarlet Letter? And what if Mia Jacob never found it on the day she planned to die? Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote: A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities. This is the story of one woman's dream. For a little while it came true."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781638089100
  • ISBN: 1638089108
  • Physical Description: 324 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: Center Point Large Print edition.
  • Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Regular print version previously published by Atria Books.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.

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Subject:
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 > Fiction.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Scarlet letter > Fiction.
Books and reading > Fiction.
Cults > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Massachusetts > Fiction.
Genre:
Time-travel fiction.
Historical fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Large print books.

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  • 35 of 35 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Brown Library System.

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