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Paperback Books by Anita Shreve
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| Body Surfing |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| The beach house in New Hampshire which figured in Anita Shreve's The Pilot's Wife, Fortune's Rocks, and Sea Glass is once again featured in Body Surfing. This time, it is the summer home of the Edwards family,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2008 |
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| A Wedding in December |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| A 25th reunion at a Maine boarding school brings together a middle-aged couple--Bridget and Bill--who broke up after high school and went their separate ways. The novel centers on their wedding, which various old classmates have gathered to... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 2006 |
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| A Wedding in December |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| Writing with the fluent narrative artistry and the acute grasp of human motivation that distinguish all of her bestselling novels, Anita Shreve tells the compelling story of seven former schoolmates who gather at an inn in the Berkshires to... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 2006 |
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| Strange Fits of Passion |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| The reader is left to uncover the truth in this labryinth of a tale, a riveting story told within the framework of one reporter's notes and a woman's letters from prison. Everyone believes that Maureen and Harrold English, two successful New... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 2005 |
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| Eden Close |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| When Andrew returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral, he is drawn once more into the legacy of beautiful Eden Close next door. Now, 17 years after a tragedy left Eden blind and her father dead, Andrew uncovers the truth about... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 2005 |
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| Light on Snow |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots Wife.
The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 2005 |
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| Light on Snow |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| Nicky Dillon is 12 years old, and it has been two years since her mother and little sister were killed in an automobile accident. Now she lives with her grieving father, Robert, and when, one winter day, they find an abandoned newborn baby in... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 2005 |
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| All He Ever Wanted |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| Years after escaping from a hotel fire and encountering an elusive woman, whom he subsequently married and divorced, a man travels from New England to Florida by train and remembers the relationship. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 600,000... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2004 |
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| All He Ever Wanted |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| Years after escaping from a hotel fire and encountering an elusive woman, whom he subsequently married and divorced, a man travels from New England to Florida by train and remembers the relationship. Reprint. |
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| Publication Date: January 2004 |
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| Sea Glass |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| From its opening pages, Anita Shreve's Sea Glass surrounds the reader in the surprisingly rich feeling of the New Hampshire coast in winter. Vividly evoking the life of the coastal community at the beginning of the Great Depression,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2003 |
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| The Last Time They Met |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| Though the prose often sings, it can't transcend what is essentially a sentimental romance with a somewhat confusing plot contrivance....Still, the story is magnetic enough to engage one's interest through at least one reading.... |
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| Publication Date: January 2002 |
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| The Last Time They Met |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| Though the prose often sings, it can't transcend what is essentially a sentimental romance with a somewhat confusing plot contrivance....Still, the story is magnetic enough to engage one's interest through at least one reading.... |
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| Publication Date: January 2002 |
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| Sea Glass |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| From its opening pages, Anita Shreve's Sea Glass surrounds the reader in the surprisingly rich feeling of the New Hampshire coast in winter. Vividly evoking the life of the coastal community at the beginning of the Great Depression,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2002 |
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| Sea Glass |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| From its opening pages, Anita Shreve's Sea Glass surrounds the reader in the surprisingly rich feeling of the New Hampshire coast in winter. Vividly evoking the life of the coastal community at the beginning of the Great Depression,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2002 |
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| The Pilot's Wife |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| Kathryn Lyons learns that her husband's plane has exploded off the coast of Ireland. As she traces the details of his life leading up to the crash, Kathryn discovers that her husband had a secret life. A variation on Antoine Saint-Exupery's... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 2001 |
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| Fortune's Rocks |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| [P]leasantly atmospheric....Olympia leaps out in sharp focus from the first page, but the conscientiously tangled plodding and the muddle it provokes in her show the strain of transplanting a millennial sensibility back a hundred years. |
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| Publication Date: January 2001 |
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| Fortune's Rocks |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| [P]leasantly atmospheric....Olympia leaps out in sharp focus from the first page, but the conscientiously tangled plodding and the muddle it provokes in her show the strain of transplanting a millennial sensibility back a hundred years. |
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| Publication Date: January 2001 |
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| Where or When |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| Leafing through his newspaper's literary supplement one day, Charles Callahan, a middle-aged insurance broker, spots a photograph of his first love, SiGn Richards. Married, faithfully if not happily, with three daughters and a struggling... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 1999 |
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| Where or When |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| Leafing through his newspaper's literary supplement one day, Charles Callahan, a middle-aged insurance broker, spots a photograph of his first love, Si'n Richards. Married, faithfully if not happily, with three daughters and a struggling... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 1999 |
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| The Pilot's Wife (Oprah's Book Club) |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| Kathryn Lyons learns that her husband's plane has exploded off the coast of Ireland. As she traces the details of his life leading up to the crash, Kathryn discovers that her husband had a secret life. A variation on Antoine Saint-Exupery's... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 1999 |
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| The Weight of Water |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| A photographer travels to an island off the coast of New Hampshire where two women were murdered more than 100 years ago. As she becomes obsessed with these crimes, she also becomes convinced that her husband is having an affair with another... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 1998 |
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| The Weight of Water |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| While investigating a century-old crime of passion on an island off New Hampshire, Jean becomes fixated on the case and begins to project this knowledge on her own marriage, believing that her husband is unfaithful, causing unrealized and... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 1998 |
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| Resistance |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| The wife of a Resistance worker in Nazi-occupied Belgium falls in love with a wounded American pilot, forcing her to struggle with trust and betrayal. By the author of Strange Fits of Passion. Reprint. Tour. NYT. PW. |
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| Publication Date: January 1997 |
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| Resistance |
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| by Anita Shreve |
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| An American pilot is downed in Belgium during a bombing mission and is hidden by a young married Belgian woman, a resister in a Nazi-occupied village. The two fall desperately in love, with consequences that test their dearly-held ideas about... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 1997 |
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