books by Anita Shreve     books:     Anita Shreve      Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel 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 ...             Sea Glass Anita Shreve Little, Brown and Company, 2004 really enjoyed this book I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The characters are well developed and the story builds to an interesting climax. This is only the second book that I've read by Anita Shreve, but it will definitely not be my last. She has a wonderful way of grabbing your attention at ...             Ethan Frome (Signet Classics) 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 ...             The Weight of Water Anita Shreve Little, Brown and Company, 2001 The Concept Makes This Work For Me A fascinating interweaving of storylines between the past and present. In the past there were murders and in the present in a photojournalist who is doing a story of the murders. The book weaves the past and present well as the story develops (both the past and ...             The Pilot's Wife Anita Shreve Little, Brown and Company, 2001 The Pilot's Wife Review I first read Anita Shreve's Body Surfing, and then just had to order another one of her books. Seeing as how The Pilot's Wife was on Oprah's book club, I figured it would be a good read and was yet again surprised by the twists and turns Shreve builds around in her ...             Where or When 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 ...             The Last Time They Met: A Novel 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, ...             Body Surfing: A Novel 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 ...             Fortune's Rocks: A Novel Anita Shreve Little, Brown and Company, 2002 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 ...             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 ...             All He Ever Wanted: A Novel Anita Shreve Little, Brown and Company, 2005 From J. Kaye's Book Blog Professor Nicholas Van Tassel, now in his later years is traveling on a train heading from New England to Florida to attend his sister's funeral. On the trip, he writes his memoirs, beginning in 1899, when he rescued Etna Bliss and her niece in a hotel fire. Through ...             Fortune's Rocks: A Novel Anita Shreve Back Bay Books, 1999 EVOCATIVE AND PROVOCATIVE... This is a well crafted and lyrically written narrative, evocative of an era gone by. It tells the story of Olympia Biddeford, the unusually erudite and well educated fifteen year old daughter of a Boston Brahmin. One hot and steamy summer in turn of the century New ...             The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (Signet Classics) Sarah Orne Jewett Signet Classics, 2000 Visit the Country Sarah Orne Jewett's THE COUNTRY OF POINTED FIRS is a visitor's tale. Set in the fictional Maine coast town of Dunnet Landing where the author/narrator has settled for the summer to write. As a visitor, the narrator inevitably recounts only the pieces of history she ...             Eden Close Anita Shreve Harvest Books, 2005 Eden Close I love Anita Shreve! This was a great book! I couldn't put it down.             A Wedding in December : A Novel Anita Shreve Little, Brown, 2005 Reinventing history, and the future, at a class reunion I've been reading several class-reunion novels lately, and this one stands out. The delicacy, the unerring accuracy, of the portrayals of old friends who are changed yet unchanged, by a couple of decades apart is compelling. 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