Anita Shreve. Knopf, $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-35090-7
Stuck in a loveless and uncommunicative marriage with her husband, Gene, young housewife and mother Grace Holland has resigned herself to a future of childcare and housework. It’s just after World War II, and there aren’t many other opportunities...
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Anita Shreve. Little, Brown, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-09886-1
Shreve’s 17th novel is a tragic yet hopeful story of love, memory, loss, and rebuilding. A young woman wakes up with amnesia in a battlefield hospital tent in Marne, France, in 1916. She thinks her name is Stella Bain, and she thinks she knows how...
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Anita Shreve, Author Viking Books $19.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-81910-2
Shreve ( Remaking Motherhood ) cogently discusses how the women's consciousness-raising movement of the 1970s, arguably the heart of the women's movement, altered life in the U.S. CR groups helped women uncover shared feelings of powerlessness, but...
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Anita Shreve, Author C.V. Mosby $16.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-8016-4606-5
Freelance journalists Shreve and Lone provide a broad but shallow overview of the hazards and priorities of good health and fitnessincluding stress, workplace dangers, addictive behavior, aging, eating disorders, birth control, depression and...
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Anita Shreve, Author Signet Book $5.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-40478-7
A potent and affecting tale of middle-aged passion from the author of Eden Close. (Oct.)
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Anita Shreve, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $19.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-15-131461-4
The author of the well-received Eden Close and Strange Fits of Passion exhibits an enhanced mastery of her craft in this potent tale of middle-aged passion. An affecting novel that will probably attract readers of The Bridges of Madison County , it...
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Anita Shreve, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $18.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-15-185760-9
As she did in her first novel, Eden Close , Shreve opens this absorbing story with oblique hints of a violent event--here a murder committed by a woman in response to domestic abuse--then segues to flashbacks that slowly reveal the circumstances...
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Anita Shreve, Author Ballantine Books $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-90533-3
Carefully measuring the success and failure of the women's consciousness-raising movement of the 1970s, arguably the heart of the women's movement, ``Shreve makes a convincing case for renewing the collective intimacy that CR groups provide,''...
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Anita Shreve, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $17.95 (265p) ISBN 978-0-15-127582-3
In her notable fiction debut (her most recent nonfiction book is Women Together, Women Alone ) Shreve sensitively explores the coming-of-age and later redemption of her hero, events separated by nearly 20 years. A recently divorced New York...
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Anita Shreve, Author Little Brown and Company $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-78114-5
The latest work by this versatile novelist (The Pilot's Wife; Fortune's Rocks) may be her most mature to date, as she demonstrates new subtleties in the unfolding of a complex plot. Proceeding in reverse chronological order, Shreve recounts the ...
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Anita Shreve, Author Little Brown and Company $32 (240p) ISBN 978-0-316-78999-8
As in her earlier novels, Shreve (Eden Close) affectingly explores themes of love and loss with piercing clarity, once again capturing the fragile emotions of those in pain. Here, however, she moves from her customary domestic, contemporary milieu...
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Anita Shreve, Little, Brown, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-02072-5
In Shreve's smooth if unsurprising latest (after A Change in Altitude), EMT Peter Webster is drawn to a woman he rescues at the scene of a one-car drunk driving accident. Webster is well intentioned, but alcoholic Sheila, with her dangerous history,
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Anita Shreve, Author . Little, Brown $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-78081-0
In addition to spinning one of her most absorbing narratives, Shreve here rewards readers with the third volume in a trilogy set in the large house on the New Hampshire coast that figured in The Pilot's Wife
and Fortune's Rocks. This time...
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Anita Shreve, Author , read by a full cast. Hachette Audio $39.98 (
, unabridged, eight CDs, 8.5 hrs., $39.98 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-60024-404-9
, unabridged, eight CDs, 8.5 hrs., $39.98 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-60024-404-9
The large cast does justice to Shreve’s engrossing novel. For once, the high school students—including Brian Kennedy as Silas, Eve Bianco as Noelle, Joshua Swanson as Rob, and Jill Apple as Sienna—sound genuinely young. Ellen...
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Anita Shreve, Author , read by Kyra Sedgwick. Time Warner AudioBooks $26.98 (, abridged, four cassettes, 6 hrs., $26.98 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-58621-269-8
This serviceable production opens with Shreve explaining how her book took shape: she envisioned stories behind colorful glass fragments washed smooth over time by the sea. As in the author's previous novels (The Last Time They Met
and The...
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Anita Shreve, Author . Little, Brown $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-78226-5
In bestsellers such as Fortune's Rocks, Shreve has revealed an impeccably sharp eye and a generous emotional sensitivity in describing the moment when a man and a woman become infatuated with each. She is less successful this time out, perhaps...
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Anita Shreve, Author . Little, Brown $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-78148-0
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...
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Anita Shreve, Author . Little, Brown $25.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-316-73899-6
ABig Chill
–like group reunites for a 40-something wedding in this melancholy story of missed opportunities, lingering regrets and imagined alternatives by Shreve (The Last Time They Met
). Bill and Bridget were sweethearts at Maine's Kidd
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Anita Shreve, Author . Little, Brown $25.99 (295p) ISBN 978-0-316-05985-5
Deceptive love and stark betrayal form the icy core of this dark 12th novel from Oprah-anointed (The Pilot's Wife
), Orange Prize finalist (The Weight of Water
) Shreve. Set adrift at 29 by the sudden death of her second husband (her first...
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Anita Shreve, Author . Little, Brown $25.99 (307p) ISBN 978-0-316-05986-2
Shreve’s novels (Body Surfing
; The Weight of Water
) benefit from propulsive plots, and her mixed latest, with its timely theme of debauchery among children of privilege, does not lack in this regard. The first paragraph foreshadows a tragedy
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Anita Shreve, Author . Little, Brown $26.99 (307p) ISBN 978-0-316-02070-1
Shreve (Testimony
), who worked in Kenya as a journalist early in her career, returns to that country in her slow latest, the story of a photojournalist and her doctor husband, whose temporary relocation abroad goes sour. The year-long research trip
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Anita Shreve, Author, Parke Godwin, Read by, Blair Brown, Read by Random House Audio Publishing Group $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-375-40948-6
The time is the turn of the last century, the setting a rocky New Hampshire coastline resort area nicknamed ""Fortune's Rocks."" Olympia Biddeford, age 15, is walking the beach, feeling the first stirrings of her womanhood. The strong-willed...
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Anita Shreve, Author, Michael Pietsch, Editor Little, Brown and Company Inc $32 (453p) ISBN 978-0-316-78101-5
In what surely will be a milestone in her career, Shreve has produced a literary novel with enormous commercial appeal. It's a scandalous love story told with dignity and integrity, and a finely etched portrait of American society at the turn of the
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Anita Shreve, Author, Michael Pietsch, Editor Little Brown and Company $28 (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-78997-4
In 1873, two women living on the Isles of Shoals, a lonely, windswept group of islands off the coast of New Hampshire, were brutally murdered. A third woman survived, cowering in a sea cave until dawn. More than a century later, Jean, a magazine...
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Anita Shreve, Author, Julius Held, Author Viking Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-80722-2
Expanded from her cover article in the New York Times Magazine, Shreve's book resounds with the conviction that benefits accrue to children of ""working mothers.'' (The author regrets the semantic necessity of the phrase that is ``grossly unjust''...
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