![]() ![]() ![]() Spineless older brother, Alan, who grows up to become the town drunk. Brought into the motherless Murray household by March's father, Henry, when both March and Hollis are very young, Hollis spends much of his childhood being tormented by March's Hollis, like Heathcliff, is a dark-eyed orphan with a questionable past. It tells the story of the obsessive love between March Murray, a successful jeweler who lives in California with her professor husband and their 15-year-old daughter, and March's onetime teen-age heartthrob, the malevolent Hollis.Ĭlearly, ''Here on Earth'' owes a lot to ''Wuthering Heights.'' It is a testament to Hoffman's gifts for language and narrative - not to mention her boldness - that the novel works at Set in Jenkintown, a seemingly isolated village within easy driving distance of Boston, Lice HOFFMAN'S 12th novel is by turns inspired, profound and dreadful. More on Alice Hoffman from The New York Times Archives. ![]()
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