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85 reviews
Anita Shreve

Little Brown and Company, 2007

A Sequel of Sorts
Can a house be a main character? It is in this book, which features the same New Hampshire beach house that appeared in The Pilot's Wife, Fortune's Rock and Sea Glass. The house remains steadfast, but the lives of the people who occupy it are as stormy and unpredictable as the Atlantic Ocean it faces. This time we meet the Edwards family, consisting of genial Mark, impossibly snobbish and ...

Testimony: A Novel
Anita Shreve

Little, Brown and Company, 2008

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment. Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing ...

RESISTANCE

58 reviews
ANITA SHREVE

LITTLE, BROWN, 1995

A Tale of Intrigue
Read about an American pilot whose plane goes down in Belgium during World War II. A woman in the town takes him in, and they fall in love.

Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel

65 reviews
Anita Shreve

Harvest Books, 2005

Title of book is not what you may anticipate it to be
Anita Schreve is one of my favorite authors-- commencing the day I read The Pilot's Wife--there was no way that I could have anticapated the ending of that book--a complete surprise. Following that read, I purchased her book Fortune's Rock's --another great read Strange Fits of Passion was so good that I had difficulty putting it down. I highly recommend it.

Fortune's Rocks(international Mass Market)

249 reviews
Anita Shreve

Little Brown and Company, 2000

Innocent Young Love with a Dirty Old Man
Well written story of 15-year-old Olympia, who goes from flirtation, to lust, to love with her father''s well -educated -physician friend, three times her age. All this in the restrictive, moralistic views of New England at the turn of the century. The reader wants to shake this girl and grab her back from the disaster she is about to embark upon. Likewise, there is an urge to shoot this ...

A Wedding in December by Shreve, Anita

106 reviews
Anita Shreve

Abacus, 2006

You want to find out how these stories end...
It's worth three and a half stars. I really wanted to find out how these stories move forward to the end when the reader just has to let go of curiosity. The fact that I was drawn to keep on reading, paired with the Shreve's very rich language that I very much enjoy is the good of this book. However, I didn't too much care for the mix of main plot with the characters' own stories - each ...

Light On Snow (Large Print)

119 reviews
Anita Shreve

Little, Brown, 2004

Loved It!
I absolutely loved this book and highly recommend it. The pace of the book was perfect, a real page turner. The author really made these characters feel alive, I felt as if I knew them and felt for them. This is the first book that I read by Anita Shreve and I will diffently read her others!

The Pilot's Wife

999 reviews
Anita Shreve

Little, Brown and Company, 2001

Great book
I really liked this book. It was an enjoyable read for me. Easy to get into and easy to read.

Ethan Frome (Signet Classics)

224 reviews
Edith Wharton

Signet Classics, 2000

A Truly Beautiful Book - but have some Prozac on hand...
"Life, is the saddest thing, next to death." Edith Wharton This brief peek into the lightless lives of Ethan & Zeeny Frome and Mattie Silver left this reader thankful that the novella wasn't very long. After all, how much bleakness can one person take? While I was perusing this one, I kept thinking to myself `what a shame, if only these people could have been born nowadays...' For in the ...

Body Surfing: A Novel

85 reviews
Anita Shreve

Back Bay Books, 2008

A Sequel of Sorts
Can a house be a main character? It is in this book, which features the same New Hampshire beach house that appeared in The Pilot's Wife, Fortune's Rock and Sea Glass. The house remains steadfast, but the lives of the people who occupy it are as stormy and unpredictable as the Atlantic Ocean it faces. This time we meet the Edwards family, consisting of genial Mark, impossibly snobbish and ...

Where or When

116 reviews
Anita Shreve, Virginia Barber

Harvest Books, 2005

where or when
This was the first book of anita shreve i read and still is my favorite. The pilots wife was excellent. but this one really keep me reading til I finished it, could not put it down. She puts such twists in her stories. About the time you think you you know the way it will end, she blindsides you and you can't put down the book.

Sea Glass

126 reviews
Anita Shreve

Little, Brown and Company, 2004

Life in the Depression Era
Set in the early depression era on the East Coast, the novel follows Honora and Sexton Beecher from the beginning of their marriage. They moved into a large deserted old house on the beach and threw themselves into making it habitable with mostly sweat equity and little money. Sexton is away every week because of his job as travelling salesman and Honora lives a quiet but very structured life. ...

The Last Time They Met: A Novel

452 reviews
Anita Shreve

Little, Brown and Company, 2003

Ouch. That unbearable foreknowledge of loss...
Another Anita Shreve's hit, sober, heart-wrenching and full of texture. I had no idea it had a connection to one of her previous books, "The Weight Of Water", which I read years ago (and liked very much). It connects us with one smaller character in that book, Linda, but it is not necessary to read its predecessor to get into this one, as it is not a sequel. Linda and Thomas meet and fall in ...

All He Ever Wanted

112 reviews
Anita Shreve

Little, Brown and Company, 2003

Another novel by Anita Shreve that I loved
ALL HE EVER WANTED by Anita Shreve August 18, 2007 Amazon Rating: 4/5 stars Another excellent Anita Shreve book, ALL HE EVER WANTED is unique in that the main character and narrator is a man. The story takes place in the early 1900's, and begins with a restaurant fire. The narrator had been eating in the hotel restaurant when the fire broke, and he relates to the event and his first ...

Light on Snow
Anita Shreve

Doubleday Large Print Home Library, 2004

From Publishers Weekly: An after-school stroll leads to a life-altering event for widower Robert Dillon and his 12-year-old daughter, Nicky, in this delicate new novel by acclaimed author Shreve (All He Ever Wanted,etc.). In the woods surrounding their secluded home in Shepherd, N.H., Robert and Nicky make a startling discoverya baby abandoned and left to die in the snow. The infant survives, but the incident leaves its mark. Still recovering ...

Strange Fits of Passion

1 review
Anita Shreve

Harvest Books, 1999

Great book
This book held my interest from beginning to end. I felt compassion for the main character and liked how the book made me think. There's a nice book club guide at the end as well.

The Weight of Water

202 reviews
Anita Shreve

Little, Brown and Company, 2001

Engaging read.
I like the fast reading and multiple story lines in this book. Anita Shreve's books are never slow and boring. This one was one of my favorites by her and I am a big fan. I also like that it involves sailing and the sea. One of Anitas best!

The Weight Of Water -

1 review
Anita Shreve -

Little Publishing -, 1997

COMPELLING...POWERFUL...ABSORBING...
This is an exceptionally well written tour de force about complex emotions. Written is clean, spare prose, it is two stories in one, each with its own voice, demanding to be heard. It is, without a doubt, a book to remember. It tells the story of Jean, a news photographer who sets out on a sailboat to a remote island off the coast of New Hampshire, accompanied by her husband, Thomas, her five ...

Sea Glass: a Novel

2 reviews
Anita Shreve

Back Bay Books, 2003

Breathtaking Story of Love
This is the first time I have read a book where the chapters are titled with a character's name and then told from their perspective. I read this book several years ago but just seeing the cover takes my breath away all over again. Although the title has little to do with the story; I believe it is a reference to how people are shaped, changed and revealed by their environment. I fell in love ...

Eden Close

66 reviews
Anita Shreve

Harvest Books, 2005

Eden Close
I love Anita Shreve! This was a great book! I couldn't put it down.

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