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| Genre/Form: | Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Anita Shreve |
| ISBN: | 0349118566 9780349118567 |
| OCLC Number: | 57750232 |
| Notes: | Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2004. |
| Description: | 272 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Anita Shreve. |
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Publisher Synopsis
This story touches the very deepest human emotions ... Chaucerian in its intense sympathy and its appealing universality ... Shreve's style is fluent and unpretentious, with an irresistible rhythmic and narrative impetus that keeps you up, reading ever faster, all night ... Perceptive, gripping and ultimately exhilarating, this is a very fine book indeed Sue Gaisford, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Anita Shreve's eleventh novel plunges the reader straight into a gripping narrative ... This is Shreve at her poised best, and her controlled, crisply understated prose makes her emotive subject all the more affecting DAILY MAIL Full of emotional depth, it's not a comfortable read but one that will stay with you a long time. Oprah says that if a book doesn't grab her in the first 50 pages, she moves on. There'll be no need for that 'Read it - Star Choice' DAILY MIRROR 'Emotionally rich ... it's the literary equivalent of a snuggly blanket on a snowy night' Read more...
