Reviews for Lies

The average rating for Lies based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-10-08 00:00:00 Christian Paschall A great, great book by a writer I hope more people will discover. Years ago, I wrote this about LIES and Hoffman: "Here's a test if you're debating whether or not to purchase this book: at random, open it to any page and start reading, and I'm willing to bet you'll find the writing luminous, compelling and absolutely magical. William Hoffman is a living legend, and LIES is unimpeachable proof of his prodigious talent." I'm not sure why he never caught on in a bigger way.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-03-09 00:00:00 Janice Olsen BookList: Sometimes one must obscure or even bury the past to live in the present. Wayland Garnett grew up with extreme poverty in -Depression-era Virginia, toiling in the tobacco fields for the Ballards, a wealthy family who owned nearly everything and everybody in Howell County. Taught by his daddy that hunger dont know dirt, Wayland and all of his sons quickly learned to steal from the Ballards bounty. After his siblings left and his parents died, Wayland served in World War II and then moved to Florida, where he established a business of his own. Erasing all traces of his hick heritage, he marries a beautiful younger woman from whom he hides his true upbringing. When he revisits Howell County, however, he must decide whether he can go on lying to his wife and daughter. Hoffmans fourteenth novel is written in a stripped, straightforward style with frequent flashbacks to Waylands past. It eloquently exposes what happens when we become the tall tales we tell about ourselves. -- MishaStone (Reviewed 09-01-2005) (Booklist, vol 102, number 1, p64)