- Massacres, Married people in fiction, Depressions, Stock Market Crash, 1929
With all the narrative power and emotional immediacy that have made her novels acclaimed international bestsellers, Anita Shreve unfolds a richly engaging tale of marriage, money, and troubled times-the story of a pair of young newlyweds who, setting out to build a life together in a derelict beach house on the Atlantic coast, soon discover how threatening the world outside their front door can be.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Anita Shreve
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books, Little, Brown, Little, Brown and Company
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316733731
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“Honora sets the cardboard suitcase on the slab of granite.”
Anita Shreve grew up in Dedham, Massachusetts (just outside Boston), the eldest of three daughters. Early literary influences include having read Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton when she was a junior in high school (a short novel she still claims as one of her favorites) and everything Eugene O'Neill ever wrote while she was a senior (to which she attributes a somewhat dark streak in her own work). After graduating from Tufts University, she taught high school for a number of years in and around Boston. In the middle of her last year, she quit (something that, as a parent, she finds appalling now) to start writing. "I had this panicky sensation that it was now or never." Joking that she could w
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