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Magic Lessons
by Alice Hoffman
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 9781982101
- ISBN 13
- 9789781982101
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Alice Hoffman on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean unmarred boards. Spine head gently pushed and faint crease to top front corner. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.99) with a faint crinkle to the spine head corners, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. A novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source. The story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic.
Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she's abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the "Unnamed Arts." Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back.
When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. Here she invokes the curse that will haunt her family. And it's here that she learns the rules of magic and the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life. Love is the only thing that matters.
Reviews
On Apr 21 2021, CloggieDownunder said:
"To any man who ever loves an Owens, let this curse befall you, let your fate lead to disaster, let you be broken in body and soul, and may it be that you never recover."
Magic Lessons is a prequel in Alice Hoffman's Practical Magic series. The curse that fosters angst in the lives of characters we meet in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic was spoken from the gallows in Salem in 1686 by their ancestor, Maria Owens.
This prequel follows her life from when, as a baby, she was found by Hannah Owens in a snowy field with the crow; taught much of the Unnamed Art into which she was born; watched the women around her betrayed by men who saw evil where there was none; vowed not to deal with love, but taken in anyway, by the father of her daughter, Faith and sent to the gallows by his word.
And after that gallows curse, the search for a taken child whose direction takes a turn to the darker arts. And finally, to the building of that house on Magnolia Street, via imprisonment and witch trials and dunkings. As expected, there are herbal recipes, spells and familiars and, of course, that pesky deathwatch beetle, but also good, true, patient men, brave and loyal friends, and love. Fans of the genre and this series will be enchanted, and looking forward to the final volume, The Book of Magic.
This unbiased review is from an uncorrected proof copy provided by NetGalley and Simon & Schuster Australia.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4515
- Title
- Magic Lessons
- Author
- Alice Hoffman
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 9781982101
- ISBN 13
- 9789781982101
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2020
- Keywords
- witches, fantasy, paranormal, owens sisters
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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