Hoffman, Alice  (1952-) <br/><br/>
The probable future 
/ Alice Hoffman 
 - 1st ed 
 - New York  : Doubleday  , 2003. 
 - 322 p.  ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Alice Hoffman's most magical novel to date three generations of extraordinary women are driven to unite in crisis and discover the rewards of reconciliation and love. Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams when they sleep. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window on the future a future that she might not want to see. InThe Probable Futurethis vivid and intriguing cast of characters confronts a haunting past and a very current murder against the evocative backdrop of small-town New England. By turns chilling and enchanting,The Probable Futurechronicles the Sparrows's legacy as young Stella struggles to cope with her disturbing clairvoyance. Her potential to ruin or redeem becomes unbearable when one of her premonitions puts her father in jail, wrongly accused of homicide. Yet this ordeal also leads Stella to the grandmother she was forbidden to meet and to a historic family home full of talismans from her ancestors. Poignant, arresting, unsettling,The Probable Futureshowcases the lavish literary gifts that have made Alice Hoffman one of America's most treasured writers. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780385507608 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003040960 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women---Social life and customs---Canada----Fiction<br/>Mothers and daughters----Fiction.<br/>Grandmothers----Fiction<br/>Clairvoyants----Fiction<br/>Murder----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>New England----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Suspense fiction<br/>Domestic fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3558.O3447  / P75 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC HOF