Local Girls (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Hoffman
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: The 1980’s and 1990’s
- Setting: Franconia and Florida
- Principal Characters: Gretel Samuelson, Frances, Jason, Margot Molinaro Sutton, Jill Harrington LoPacca
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Pregnancy, Substance abuse, Death or dying, Revenge, Drug addiction or addicts, Metaphysics, Miracles, Orphans or orphanages, Fire, Water
- Locales: Florida, Franconia (fictive)
Prior to Local Girls, Alice Hoffman had written thirteen novels and collections of short stories, most concerning intense, realistic relationships between family members, friends, and/or lovers. Unlike other writers such as Anne Tyler and Gail Godwin who mine these same themes, Hoffman creates texts riddled with freakish physical and/or natural phenomena which serve as tropes for her metaphysics. Sometimes these events have comic purposes, but typically they convey literal as well as symbolic meanings. In Here on Earth (1997), for example, the main character falls in love...
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