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 enlarge | Author: Alice Hoffman
Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 4782
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0307393852
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780307393852
ASIN: 0307393852
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Angel May 27, 2008
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
A bit slow of a reader. Started off hazy, middle got interesting, but the end was a sleeper. Would not recommend this one.
 A whole lotta nothing May 25, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
"The Third Angel" had it's moments, but alot of the book dragged. There was writing that went nowhere.
I found myself rushing through the last chapter just to find out what the deal was with Ted Healy.
 Is the third angel really walking among us? May 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Alice Hoffman's latest novel, The Third Angel, is made up of three stories woven together by a common theme of love, abandonment, and betrayal. The stories go back in time beginning with The Heron's Wife is set in 1999. Maddy has to deal with the heartache and the folly of falling in love with her sister's fiance Paul. In 1966 Frieda falls in love with a rock star addicted to hard drugs, and in love with someone else. With another jump back in time we meet Lucy. At 12, Lucy inadvertently causes the death of two of the three people caught in a love triangle.
The Third Angel is first mentioned in The Heron's Wife. As the doctor explained, The Angel of Death and the Angel of Life are well known. One or the other would always ride with him as he made house calls. He had no say in the matter. He never knew which one was along for the ride until he arrived at the designated location.
The Third Angel is different. He walks among us, but is rarely identified as an angel. He makes mistakes and sometimes needs rescuing. We think we're rescuing him but in truth, he rescues us. The characters in The Third Angel are flawed, they fell in love at the wrong time or with the wrong person, but they find a way to move on. They fix their broken lives and eventually reach out and become The Third Angel.
Not the best Hoffman, but readable May 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Third Angel: A Novel
I don't think this is the best Alice Hoffman, but I certainly enjoyed it more than Blue Diary, Skylight Confessions and some of her other recent books. I did enjoy the background info on some of the characters as she went back and forth from the present to the past and back again, but the ending, I thought, was very inconclusive and flat.
 The Third Angel May 15, 2008
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
This work is somewhat confusing. It leaves the reader saying, so, what was the point of that?
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