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Body Surfing - Anita Shreve
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Eden Close - Anita Shreve
Andrew an advertising executive in his mid-30s returns to his hometown in upstate New York
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for his mother's funeral. He does not intend to
stay in the slow rural backwater he left seventeen
years before. But the dreams and memories persist
and in the darkened farmhouse he relives that hot
bloody night when Eden Close was blinded - by the
same gun that killed her father. The enigmatic
Eden had been Andrew's childhood companion.
Together the two roamed summer cornfields smoked
their first forbidden cigarettes skated fished and
fought until the tomboy turned temptress - then
their friendship ended. Now despite warnings
Andrew is drawn again to this lost blind girl of
his youth drawn to save her from the cruel neglect
she has endured for seventeen sightless years
without him. But first he must discover the grisly
truth about that night...
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Fortune's Rocks - Anita Shreve
Set 100 years ago in Boston FORTUNE'S ROCKS is a classic of literary and romantic
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storytelling. Fifteen-year-old Olympia Biddeford
is spending the summer with her parents at their
seasonal house at Fortune's Rocks. Her father
handles her education himself and is in fact a
publisher of mildly liberal literature. One author
he admires who also practises as a physician comes
to visit the house. 40 years old married with four
children he nonetheless embarks on an affair with
the girl. They have a swift passionate summer torn
apart when they are discovered together during
Olympia's birthday party. She is taken back to
Boston her parents are mortified and remove
themselves from society. When Olympia gives birth
to a baby boy nine months later he is taken from
her and she finds herself in exile at a ladies
college and then as a governess. She decides she
must get her child back which means returning to
Fortune's Rocks... The sensuality of a girl's rite
of passage the descriptions of landscape weather
music and light are vintage Shreve and her seventh
novel will thrill her many admirers.
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Resistance - Anita Shreve
As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium Claire Daussois has grown
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used to hiding strange men in her attic. By the
end of 1943 the tiny room has housed dozens of
Allied airmen soldiers and other refugees whom
Claire nurses and harbours from the perpetual
threat of discovery by the Gestapo. The B-17
bomber that crash-lands outside Claire's village
of Delahaut contains the man who will be both the
last and the most significant of the attic's
residents: US Air Force pilot Ted Brice. Ted is
found severely wounded and semi-conscious by
ten-year-old Jean Benoit minutes before the
Germans begin their search for survivors. Knowing
of Claire's connections with the Resistance and
desperate to atone for his father's shameful
collaboration Jean realises that Claire is the
pilot's only hope of survival. The month that
follows will stay with them both for the rest of
their lives. A few weeks only a handful of days it
is a period in which the war recedes in the face
of more powerful forces - before imposing itself
once more with shocking suddenness.
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Sea Glass - Anita Shreve
The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband Sexton are just settling into a new
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marriage and a cottage on the coast of New
Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict
house and searches for bits of sea glass on the
beach Sexton risks everything they own to buy the
house they both love. Along with millions of other
Americans he is blindsided by the stock market
crash and finds himself penniless. The only work
he can find is at a nearby mill where a labour
conflict is erupting into violence. Shaken by
forces they scarcely understand Honora and Sexton
try to build a marriage and home while overwhelmed
by passions of every kind. Writing with the power
and immediacy that have made her novels
bestsellers Shreve unfolds interlocking lives each
with its own share of love loss and challenge.
This is another gripping and unforgettable story
of the human heart from one of the most
accomplished novelists of our time.
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Testimony - Anita Shreve
Pages: 320, Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Body Surfing - Anita Shreve
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Testimony - Anita Shreve
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Sea Glass - Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve's new novelSea Glassrepresents a remarkable advance. She previously caught
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the attention of many readers withFortune's
RocksandThe Pilot's Wife, beautifully crafted
novels with rich and subtly observed
characterisation. But however impressive those
books were,Sea Glasshas the same adroit creation
of character, but the prose is even more rich and
allusive. This is a story of the human heart, of
the demands of the past, and of the necessity for
pragmatism in human relationships. It's 1929, and
Honora Beecher and her husband Sexton are enjoying
their new marriage in a cottage on the coast of
New Hampshire. Honora is renovating the rundown
property and searching for pieces of coloured
glass washed up on the beach. Sexton attempts to
buy the house they both adore, but with disastrous
results: like many other Americans, he is a victim
of the stock market crash and is financially wiped
out. He is forced to work in a nearby mill, where
a labour conflict is having violent results. The
couple's struggle to maintain their marriage in
the face of dangerous forces that threaten to
overwhelm them is vividly and poignantly
told.Shreve has written nine novels and throughout
her work she has painstakingly honed her
storytelling skills with elegance and
intelligence. She is particularly skilful at
depicting interlocking lives, as inSea Glass, and
adroitly invests each with its own portion of love
and tragedy. If you want to be one of the "early
adopters" of Shreve's cherishable novels, now is
the time:In the wet sand by her foot, a bit of
colour catches her eye. The glass is green pale
and cloudy, the colour of lime juice that has been
squeezed into a glass. She brushes the sand off
and presses the sea glass into her palm, keeping
it for luck.--Barry Forshaw
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Testimony - Anita Shreve
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