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Bewitched
Pritchard, Melissa | November 26, 1990 issue

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The article presents information on the book "Seventh Heaven," by Alice Hoffman. Hoffman's heroine, Nora Silk, scarcely realizing what demons of malcontent they unleash, are anathema, unconscious repudiations of domesticity. Indeed, Hoffman is wittily direct in her equation of Nora Silk with the community witch. Hoffman's greatest strength is her unabashed advocacy of the healing power of human love. By the end of "Seventh Heaven," Nora Silk sits in the bleachers wearing Bermuda shorts, watching her son Billy play baseball, both of them finally assimilated into this outwardly wholesome community.

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SEVENTH Heaven (Book); HOFFMAN, Alice; CHARACTERS & characteristics in literature; LOVE in literature; LITERATURE
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