Alice Hoffman (b. 1952) is an American writer, the author of fifteen novels, two collections of short stories, and six books for children, most of which were recognized by the press as the best books of the year. Her works have been translated into twenty languages and have gone through more than a hundred editions in different countries of the world. 6 films have been made based on her novels and scripts. “Confessions on a Glass Roof” is a piercing and bitter story of talent doomed to self-destruction by the destructive influence of misunderstanding and dull routine, which are opposed, sometimes in vain, by the efforts of love. Lively and accurate pictures of modern reality are marked, as is often the case with Alice Hoffman, by the presence of mysticism. Beginning as a stylized, very poetic Love Story, the plot gradually enters the mainstream of a completely earthly, even naturalistic realism and, depicting the physical and mental suffering of the characters, when it already seems that everyone is doomed and there is no way out, suddenly again lifts us into the semi-fantastic world of visions and hallucinations.