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An exceptional swimmer, coralie appears as the mermaid in her fathers museum, alongside performers like the wolfman, the butterfly girl, and a 100yearold turtle. It is the story of coralie, a girl with webbing between her fingers who lives with her father and his collection of extraordinary things and people. Coralie sardie is the daughter of the owner of the museum of extraordinary things. Cussys patrons refer to her as bluet or book woman, and she delights in bringing them books as well as messages, medicine, and advice.

Coralie sardie is the daughter of a selfproclaimed scientist and professor who acts as the impresario of the museum of extraordinary things, a boardwalk freak show offering amazement and entertainment to the masses. The museum of extraordinary things summary supersummary. Alice hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including the world that we knew, the rules of magic, the marriage of opposites, practical magic, the red garden, the oprahs book club selection here on earth, the museum of extraordinary things, and the dovekeepers. The museum of extraordinary things book king county. Coralie appears as the mermaid in her fathers museum, alongside performers like the wolfman, the butterfly girl, and a onehundredyearold turtle. Coralie sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind the museum of extraordinary things, a coney island freak show that thrills the masses. Top ten highlights of alice hoffmans the museum of. Set in new york city in the early 1900s, the museum of extraordinary things veers from the extravagant mansions. Coralie sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind the museum of extraordinary things, a coney. The first edition of the novel was published in february 18th 2014, and was written by alice hoffman.

The museum of extraordinary things alice hoffman isbn. The museum of extraordinary things, once you dive in, holds you as a willing captive, swimming effortlessly through the story, in which you learn, in the most intimate way, about two, otherwise obscure, events in nyc history, through the eyes of the victims and their families. Mar 02, 2014 the museum of extraordinary things is, in a way, a museum of alice hoffmans bag of plot tricks. About the author alice hoffman is the author of thirty works of fiction, including practical magic, the red garden, the oprahs book club selection here on earth, and. The daughter of a curiosities museums front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a russian immigrant photographer, who after fleeing his lower east side orthodox community, has captured poignant images of the infamous triangle shirtwaist factory fire. The museum of extraordinary things free pdf, doc, epub, fb3. The museum of extraordinary things audiobook by alice. I cant resist a book, or any other work of art, that features characters sideshow characters or history. And the more her father involved her in the work of the museum, the less worthy she believed herself to be. Feb 16, 2014 the year 1911 had an apocalyptic feel in new york city as fire devastated the triangle shirtwaist factory in greenwich village and destroyed the amusement park dreamland that rose above coney island. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the museum of extraordinary things. Coralee and eddie are running away from their fathers and inadvertently they run into each other.

The museum of extraordinary things lives up to the extraordinary of its title, a work of passion that celebrates a place and an era even while it explores a particularly dark moment in new yorks history. Trade paperback used fiction the spellbinding people, 4 stars, new york times bestseller from the author of the dovekeepers an extraordinary novel about an electric and impassioned love affairan enchanting love story rich with history and a sense of place usa today. An extraordinarily imaginative and immersive novel, this one set in new york from 19111925the museum of extraordinary things a novel book. Alice hoffmans latest novel has the word extraordinary in the title for good reason. The museum of extraordinary things alice hoffman, 2014 scribner 384 pp.

Set in 1911 in new york city, these two outcasts fall in love in the shadow of the triangle shirtwaist fire and growing labor unrest in alice hoffmans the museum of extraordinary things. An extraordinary swimmer, coralie appears as the mermaid alongside performers like the wolfman, the butterfly girl,and a 100. The museum of extraordinary things by alice hoffman. Alice hoffman, author of the 1998 oprahs book club pick here on earth and more recently the dovekeepers, returns with her 24th novel, a richly textured work balancing magical realism with historical fact. In the early 1900s coney island was a place to escape to from the summer heat of manhattan, where houses of ill repute and saloons lined the streets. Coralie is the only child of a oncefamous french magician who now runs the museum of extraordinary things on coney islands surf avenue.

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