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Amazon.com ReviewA solitary New Jersey librarian whose favorite book is a guide to suicide methods is struck by lightning in Alice Hoffman's superb novel, The Ice Queen. Orphaned at the age of eight after angrily wishing she would never see her mother again, our heroine found herself frozen emotionally: "I was the child who stomped her feet and made a single wish and in so doing ended the whole world‹my world, at any rate." Her brother Ned solved the pain of their mother's death by becoming a meteorologist: applying reason and logic to bad weather. Eventually, he invites our heroine to move down to Florida, where he teaches at a university. Here, while trying to swat a fly, she is struck by lightning (the resulting neurological damage includes an inability to see the color red). Orlon County turns out to receive two thirds of all the lightning strikes in Florida each year, and our heroine soon becomes drawn into the mysteries of lightning: the withering of trees and landscape near a strike, the medical traumas and odd new abilities of victims, the myths of renewal. Although a recluse, she becomes fascinated by a legendary local farmer nicknamed Lazarus Jones, said to have beaten death after a lightning strike: to have seen the other side and come back. The burning match to her cool reserve--her personal unguided tour through Hades--Lazarus will prove to be the talisman that restores her to girlhood innocence and possibility. Hoffman's story advances with a feline economy of language and movement--not a word spared for the color of the sky, unless the color of the sky factors into the narrative. Among the authors who have played with the fairy tale's harsh mercies (e.g. Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter), Hoffman has the closest understanding of the primal fears that drive the genre, and why, perhaps, we never outgrow fairy stories, but only learn to substitute dull, wholesome qualities like personal initiative or good timing for the elements that raise the hairs on our neck and send us scrambling for the light switch. --Regina Marler Books - Tower of the Hand An Encyclopedia of Ice and Fire A fansite for George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO's Game of Thrones featuring chapter and episode guides character profiles family trees maps ... Disney On Ice Disney Wiki Fandom powered by Wikia Disney On Ice is a touring ice show produced by Feld Entertainment under agreement with the Walt... Defrosting Ice Queen - TV Tropes The Defrosting Ice Queen trope as used in popular culture. She is the Ice Queen (and sometimes An Ice Person): cool reserved and giving nothing away. She A Song of Ice and Fire - A Wiki of Ice and Fire A Song of Ice and Fire (commonly abbreviated as ASoIaF) is an ongoing a series of epic fantasy novels by American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin ... World of A Song of Ice and Fire - Wikipedia A Song of Ice and Fire location; Created by: George R. R. Martin: Genre: Novel/Television: Type: Fantasy world: Notable locations: Westeros Essos Sothoryos Ulthos Ice Warrior Tardis Fandom powered by Wikia An Ice Warrior's full body. (TV: The Ice Warriors) Their exoskeletal armour melded with the body of their wearer and an Ice Warrior was described as being one with ... Diary of an ice queen: The literature of the Amanda Knox ... Wednesday Aug 14 2013 9:01 PM UTC Diary of an ice queen: The literature of the Amanda Knox case Whether she's guilty or not there ... Snow Queen - Wikipedia Snow Queen may refer to: The Snow Queen an 1845 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen; Synthyris reniformis a species of flowering plant; Adaptations of the ... Elsa the Snow Queen - Disney Wiki - Wikia Elsa the Snow Queen is a featured article which means it has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Disney Wiki community. Chapters - A Wiki of Ice and Fire Long ago in a time forgotten a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime trouble is ...
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