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Original Title:	Second Nature
ISBN:	0425161633 (ISBN13: 9780425161630)
Edition Language:	English

Second Nature Paperback | Pages: 272 pages

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Title	:	Second Nature
Author	:	Alice Hoffman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	February 1st 1998 by Berkley (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Fiction. Magical Realism. Fantasy. Romance

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Second Nature tells the story of a suburban woman, Robin Moore, who discovers her own free spirit through a stranger she brings home to her perfectly ordered neighborhood. As Robin impulsively draws this beautiful, uncivilized man into her world-meanwhile coping with divorce and a troubled teenage son-she begins to question her wisdom and doubt her own heart, and ultimately she changes her ideas about love and humanity.

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My first Alice Hoffman book, and I am glad I chanced upon it.. This book has all that I like in a novel- language, good characters, romance, suspense, relations... It feels almost like a fairy tale, though with a not-so-happy ending. The language is plain yet absorbing, with a flow to it. Well explored characters, you actually feel that you know them. Beautiful descriptions, be it the surroundings, or the characters or their actions, or emotions... The romance was really good, though sad. A

Hoffman lives up to her hype of expressive words and phrases that convey setting, relationships, and character growth. Overall, this author is a master of the craft and will not disappoint those who look for structure and need a solid construct of story elements. As for the story itself, it was a strange read. Hoffman created a character that had been raised, and loved, by wolves. Having been hurt, he is 'rescued' and institutionalized in the hopes of civilizing him. However, the main character

Yet another Alice Hoffman book I started and couldn't finish. I did find one quote I liked though. "This happened with roses: it was possible to take them for granted all summer as they wound along fences and gates, and then in September, when they faded, how beautiful they'd once been suddenly took hold. That was when people began to yearn for them, and all winter long they'd watch the bare branches for buds, vowing that this time they'd be grateful for all that they had."

I've read this book so many times that I can't believe I'm reading it again -- but, I am. I love Alice Hoffman's quirky blend of magic realism and pragmatism.

An absorbing page turner! A "wolf man" is caught by trappers and taken to a psychiatric hospital. He is examined, prodded and questioned. Orders are written to send him to another psychiatric facility to be locked up the rest of his life. The doctor's wife, Robin, daringly smuggles the "wolf man" out of the hospital and takes him home with her. What follows changes the community and Robin's life. Wonderful story.From the back cover:"He was beautiful. He was innocent. And in the locked room where

I like Alice Hoffman's work more than I admire it, partly because her stories seem so easy. She tells an engaging story, scripts it neatly, and peoples it with well drawn characters. Second Nature is a lovely allegory about how our own best impulses are undermined by our uncertainties. Its making its hero a "feral boy" is a little implausible and a tad magical, but that is part of (and part of the point of) the book's charm. I enjoyed the book thoroughly, ripped right through it, was satisfied

Beguiled by her seductive prose and her imaginative virtuosity, readers have always been willing to suspend disbelief and enjoy the touches of magic in Hoffman's novels ( Illumination Night ; Turtle Moon , etc). Here, credibility is stretched not by magical intervention but by the implausibility of a major character. When a feral young man is discovered living with wolves in a remote area of upper Michigan, he cannot speak and can barely remember his early life. Transferred to a hospital in