Property Of

By Alice Hoffman

Book Overview

The acclaimed first novel by Alice Hoffman, a "marvelous writer with a painter's eye" (Washington Post Book World), Property Of is about a young girl fearlessly in love with a gang leader but afraid... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425174352
• ISBN13: 9780425174357
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

One of my Favorites!

The only books I've read by Alice Hoffman are 'Property Of' and 'Practical Magic'. I hope they never make a movie of 'Property Of', thereby ruining it. Potential Readers: Try and ignore the naysayers. Why pick apart things you don't like when all the things put together make the novel what Ms. Hoffman intended it to be? True, heroin and gangs suck in real life. Just because you might never have wanted to belong so badly doesn't make the book a bad one. I still have my original copy from 78? 79? and it's coming apart. I'm buying another copy because I want to pass this one on...This is a great book. Dark, yes, depressing at times, yes. But very realistic to falling in love with a guy who doesn't know what love is.

A touching, wonderful book!

I really enjoyed reading this book, though it was not all happy and joyful through the whole thing. If anyone has ever fallen for a guy from the wrong side of the tracks, and had thier heart broken, this is the book for you. It gets down deep into the heart of this particular woman, and you grow up with her from a teeny bopper to a strong individual. I would recommend this book to anyone. It has a lot of insight. It was a wonderful book and I could not put it down.

beautiful 1st novel

Whenever I am disillusioned by books I turn to Alice Hoffman to get me back on track. This book, Property Of, is no exception. I first read it as a teenager, half my life ago, and it still is as powerful now as it was then. It's a story of a lonely girl who wants the Leader of the local gang to be hers. She wins him and all his problems, becomes his conscience, and through the bad times, his only friend. When she tries to take him away from his gang and turf she begins to realise that she will never have him on this own, the way she wants him. He will always be part of the scene she is ready to escape. Powerful, insightful stuff on how relationships can wither until you can't recognise them anymore.

This book echos in your mind years after reading it!!!

It is not very often that I find a book that leaves me wanting more. I lost myself in Hoffman's words and the world she created. This is by far one of the top books I have ever, and most likely will ever, read.

It's a keeper!

I've owned this book for many years. It's one of my all time favorites. It mirrors real life, and has a very haunting quality about it. I looked up this book not expecting to find it. I'm glad it's out there for when my copy falls apart completely.