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   Fortune's Rocks

   • Anita Shreve

   • 464pagine
   • 17 ore di lettura

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   Set 100 years ago in Boston, Fortune's Rocks is a classic of literary and romantic storytelling. Fourteen-year-old Olympic Biddeford is spending the summer with her parents at their seasonal house at Fortune's Rocks. Her father handles her education himself and is in fact a publisher of mildly liberal literature. One author he admires, who also practises as a physician, comes to visit the house. 40 years old, married with four children, he still embarks on an affair with the adolescent girl. They have a swift, passionate summer, torn apart when they are discovered together during Olympic's fifteenth birthday party. She is taken back to Boston, her parents are mortified and remove themselves from society. When Olympic is delivered of a baby boy nine months later, he is taken from her and she finds herself in exile at a ladies college and then as a governess. She decides she must get her child back, which means returning to Fortune's Rocks... This sensuality of a girl's rite of passage, the descriptions of landscape, weather, music and light, are vintage Shreve and her seventh novel will thrill her many admirers.

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   Sea Glass

   • Anita Shreve

   • 368pagine
   • 13 ore di lettura

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   The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for bits of sea glass on the beach, Sexton risks everything they own to buy the house they both love. Along with millions of other Americans, he is blindsided by the stock market crash and finds himself penniless. The only work he can find is at a nearby mill, where a labour conflict is erupting into violence. Shaken by forces they scarcely understand, Honora and Sexton try to build a marriage and home while overwhelmed by passions of every kind. Writing with the power and immediacy that have made her novels bestsellers, Shreve unfolds interlocking lives, each with its own share of love, loss and challenge. This is another gripping and unforgettable story of the human heart from one of the most accomplished novelists of our time.

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   La moglie del pilota

   • Anita Shreve

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   Una vita perfetta, quella di Kathryn Lynos: un matrimonio riuscito, un marito pilota che l'adora, una figlia deliziosa, una casa da cartolina sull'oceano. Ma una notte una visita inattesa le porta una terribile notizia che trasforma, nel giro di pochi istanti, quell'esistenza felice nel peggiore degli incubi: l'aereo pilotato dal marito Jack è precipitato al largo della costa irlandese e lui ha perso la vita. Travolta dalla disperazione, Kathryn dovrà trovare la forza, assieme alla figlia, per superare il devastante dolore che l'attanaglia, per affrontare la paura della solitudine ma, soprattutto, per vincere il profondo stordimento di fronte alle sconvolgenti rivelazioni sul conto di Jack che affiorano dalle indagini.

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   Body Surfing

   • Anita Shreve

   • 264pagine
   • 10 ore di lettura

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   At the age of twenty-nine, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to find her footing again, she has answered an advertisement 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 is threatened. With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant insight into real emotion that has led her to be called 'a supremely elegant anatomist of the human heart' (The Times), Shreve weaves a story about risk, family, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.

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