@article{436739, recid = {436739}, author = {Hoffman, Alice.}, title = {The red garden /}, publisher = {Crown Publishers,}, address = {New York :}, pages = {270 p. ;}, year = {2011}, abstract = {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.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436739}, }