01575cam a2200325 i 4500 71552936 TxGeo 20110121120000.0 100222s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010006246 9780307405975 trade pbk. 0307405974 trade pbk. TxGeo rda Hoffman, Alice. The red garden / Alice Hoffman. 1st ed. New York, NY : Crown Publishers, 2011. 270 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Hoffman offers a fictional glimpse of small-town America, presenting us with some three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption in a web of tales where characters' lives are intertwined by fate and by their own actions. A young wounded Civil War soldier is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet falls in love with a blind man, and a mysterious traveler comes to town in the year when summer never arrives. At the center of everyone's life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look. 20230627. City and town life Massachusetts Fiction. Gardens Fiction. Massachusetts Fiction. Occult fiction. Paranormal fiction. QS5