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I have read many of Alice Hoffman's novels, including two of the most recent - THE DOVEKEEPERS and THE MUSEUM OF EXTRAORDINARY THINGS. This novel, THE WHITE HORSES was published much earlier, in 1982, and has quite a few shortcomings - an unsatisfactory ending that contradicts most of the flavor of the book, characters and sub-plots that don't add to the story or are left unresolved, and semi-magical elements that are also unexplained. Also, the story of a brother and sister who become lovers is very melancholy and sordid. Nevertheless, I liked the author's understanding of this family's dynamics and the passing of one generation's delusions to the generation that follows it. The idea that you will meet someone magical who can do no wrong, who will rescue you from everyday life, is very destructive, if it leads you to place all your hopes on one person. Often, even magically endowed people are flawed and can not substitute for a well-established sense of your own worth.


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White Horses Alice Hoffman 9780425170502 Books Reviews

I love Alice Hoffman's work and have read almost all of her books. I don't know the technical process of bringing a book from its published state to the Edition, but whoever proofread this Edition must have been asleep! There were so many errors that at times it was hard to deciper what word was supposed to be on the page. I find typographical errors in print work INEXCUSABLE! Are there no professionals left in the literary world?
White Horses is a book worth reading if you are an Alice Hoffman fan. It is because it is written by Alice Hoffman that it is worth reading, and is the main selling point. This book, true to form, has her beautiful and lyrical style of writing that sweeps readers up and carries them along. Even more than making us feel that we are there - she makes us feel like we are privileged to be there.

That being said, it is useful to know that it isn't an especially happy book. It's difficult to relate to any of the characters - they are all forlorn and (by varying degrees) shallow. While we as the reader want the best for them, we don't really expect that they will get it, and they don't. Sometimes it isn't clear where the book is going, and there are many parts of the book that aren't developed. The reader is left wondering why it was put there to start with. Other themes are overly developed to the point of being repetitious. This books lacks the enjoyment we received from Practical Magic and Turtle Moon. Ironically, if you know all this from the beginning, you will very likely enjoy it more.

We like to read books by our favorite authors, and we recognize that not all books will be of equal quality. Because of this, fans will still want to read this book.
I started reading this book, put it away, then started all over weeks later. It didn’t draw me in as quickly as most books do, but I kept at it. Not sure if I would read another by this author - until I saw one of her books was an Oprah book pick.
The story keeps your attention because you want to find out if the 2 women living in a fantasy ever get in touch with reality. The women are pathetic and I’m not a fan of incest and spoiler alert-there is incest, So if that’s an emotional trigger for you skip this book.
The three stars are entirely because I love Alice Hoffman's writing style and the story is beautifully told, but the story itself wasn't very satisfying. I was never able to care anything about the characters. They were all equally hopeless.
I can't past the way she romanticized incest. Alice Hoffman is one of my favorite writers. He words bring what she's describing to life. If this story was about two random people and their love story, I would have loved this book. But it's about the love between a brother and sister and no amount of beautiful words can make me look past that. I was disturbed through the whole thing. I wanted this book to end so badly. I only read to the end in hopes that there would be some explanation. Maybe they weren't really brother and sister. Maybe it was a sick dream. Sadly, that didn't happen.
This is one of Alice Hoffman's early books and it certainly shows her beautiful gift for lyric writing and graceful prose. Though I enjoyed reading it I didn't find the two main characters, Silver and Teresa Connor, as sympathetic as I have other characters. Both f them are the product of a very dysfunctional family. Their mother Dina is a dreamer who married or all the wrong reasons and their father, King, is something of a jerk but he's also dealing with a wife for whom nothing is good enough. There is a third child in the family, Reuben, but he escapes early and is never heard from again.

The heart of the story is the relationship between Silver and Teresa. Silver is beautiful, exotic and wild. To his younger sister he is an "Aria," a romantic, cowboy-like mythical figure that her mother dreamed up when she was a child. Teresa's passion for her brother is boundless and when her mother dies, Teresa goes to live with Silver and his wife and new baby.

The theme of incest has been discussed by other reviewers but I did not find it off-putting or even unusual. I am of the opinion that sibling incest is far more common than most people realize. I got annoyed with Teresa because she was like a stray cat, just wandering in and out of people's lives with no concern or interest in how her behavior effected anyone.

The most sympathetic character in the story is Bergen, the private detective who fell in love Dina. An almost unbelievably kind man. This is beautifully written book and in it we can see the beginnings of the writer who went on to create far more magical characters and prose.
I have read many of Alice Hoffman's novels, including two of the most recent - THE DOVEKEEPERS and THE MUSEUM OF EXTRAORDINARY THINGS. This novel, THE WHITE HORSES was published much earlier, in 1982, and has quite a few shortcomings - an unsatisfactory ending that contradicts most of the flavor of the book, characters and sub-plots that don't add to the story or are left unresolved, and semi-magical elements that are also unexplained. Also, the story of a brother and sister who become lovers is very melancholy and sordid. Nevertheless, I liked the author's understanding of this family's dynamics and the passing of one generation's delusions to the generation that follows it. The idea that you will meet someone magical who can do no wrong, who will rescue you from everyday life, is very destructive, if it leads you to place all your hopes on one person. Often, even magically endowed people are flawed and can not substitute for a well-established sense of your own worth.