Shreve Anita

Body Surfing

Shreve Anita, 2007

At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt for herself is threatened. With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant insight into the human heart that has led her to be called an author at one with her metier (Miami Herald), Shreve weaves a novel about marriage, family, and the supreme courage that it takes to love. Подробнее

A Wedding in December

Shreve Anita, 2006

At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of the inn, has recently had to reinvent her life following the death of her husband. Avery, who still hears echoes from a horrific event at Kidd Academy twenty-six years ago, has made a life for himself in Toronto with his wife and two sons. Agnes, now a history teacher at Kidd is a woman who longs to tell a secret she cannot reveal to the others, a secret that would stun them all. Bridget, the mother of a fifteen-year-old boy, has agreed to marry Bill, an old high school lover whom she has recently remet, despite uncertainties about her health and future. Indeed, it is Bill who passionately wants this wedding and who has brought everyone together for an astonishing weekend of revelation and recrimination, forgiveness and redemption. This is Anita Shreve's most ambitious and moving novel to date, probing into human motivation with extraordinary grace and skill. Подробнее

Rescue

Shreve Anita, 2011

The car crash should have killed her. But rookie paramedic Peter Webster takes the emergency call, and helps the young woman, Sheila Arsenault, to survive. After the accident, she haunts his thoughts, despite his misgivings about getting involved with a patient. Soon he is embroiled in an intense love affair and in Sheila's troubled life. Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off course and for the first time in their quiet life together Peter fears for her future. He seeks out the only person who may be able to help Rowan, although Sheila's return is sure to unleash all the questions Peter has been carefully keeping at bay: Why would a mother leave her family? How did the marriage of two people in love unravel? Подробнее

Testimony

Shreve Anita, 2011

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 voice — 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. A gripping emotional drama with the pace of a thriller, Anita Shreve's Testimony explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions. Подробнее

Where or When?

Shreve Anita, 2011

When Charles Callahan chances on a newspaper photograph of Sian Richards, a woman he loved when they were both only thirteen, he is hardly in a position to do anything about it. He has been faithfully married for years and his Rhode Island real estate business has been hit hard by the recession. He is scrambling to stave off bankruptcy and save his house. But Charles cannot resist the hand of fate. He writes to Sian, now a poet living with a family of her own on a farm in upstate New York. Three decades after they last saw each other, the two lovers meet. Powerfully drawn together once again, Charles and Sian are forced to come to terms with the nature of erotic love and betrayal, moral quandaries in an age of shifting values, and the elusive nature of time. Struggling to reclaim what once they lost, they set in motion a passionate and tumultuous series of events that moves to a shocking conclusion. Подробнее

All He Ever Wanted

Shreve Anita, 2008

In the wake of such acclaimed No.1 bestsellers as «The Pilot's Wife», «The Last Time They Met», and «Sea Glass», Anita Shreve gives us a brilliant new novel about love, jealousy and loss. It is the story of a man whose obsession with a young woman begins when he meets her fleetingly — as he helps her escape from a fire in a restaurant — and culminates in a marriage doomed by secrets and betrayal. Written with the intelligence and grace that are Anita Shreve's hallmarks, this gripping tale is peopled by unforgettable characters as real as the emotions that bring them together. Подробнее

Body Surfing

Shreve Anita, 2008

Always readable — sometimes compulsively so — Shreve's novels are typically emotionally resonant, nicely paced, and populated by memorable characters. At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing, she has signed on to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. Подробнее

Strange Fits of Passion

Shreve Anita, 2009

Reissue, with a new cover, of Anita Shreve`s second novel, exploring the complications of an abusive relationship. Подробнее

Eden Close

Shreve Anita, 1994

A fiction debut from the author of «The Weight of Water» and «The Pilot's Wife». Подробнее

Last Time They Met

Shreve Anita, 2011

Anita Shreve`s eighth novel is a contemporary novel of love and forgiveness — and a life not lived. Подробнее

Body Surfing

Shreve Anita, 2008

The bestselling author of «A Wedding in December» returns with a scintillating new novel about a young widow torn between two brothers during one long New England summer. Подробнее

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