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A Wedding in December - Anita Shreve


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A Wedding in December - Anita Shreve

 
Description: ISBN 0349117993 / Author: Anita Shreve / Genre: Fiction / 'Shreve writes cool, lucid, popular fiction and the hugely readable A Wedding ... more
A Wedding in December - Anita Shreve ... in December is no exception'

Newest Review: ... very long. Bill wants to put right the decades he wasted not being with her by getting married. The hotel belongs to Nora, ... more

 ... the widow of a famous American poet who is trying to get her life back on track after his death, and trying to become a whole person again after years of abuse living in his shadow. Harrison is a publisher, married to a Canadian lawyer and father to two boys but still carrying a torch for Nora. Harrison is still covering up a secret related to a tragedy that united the group in their last few weeks at school. Will he tell or not? Another person with a secret is Agnes, the frumpy, dumpy spinster school teacher who n...more

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Premium Review A Wedding in December - Anita Shreve: Old friends find skeletons in their cupboards (1321 words)
by - written on 08/06/07 (Very useful, 152 readings)
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Anita Shreve ************ Anita Shreve is a writer I first discovered with her book ‘The Pilot’s Wife’ – a scarily prescient novel about a plane crash in which there is a terrorist sub-plot. Reading her 2005 novel ‘A Wedding in December’, the first she wrote after the attacks of September 11th, it was strange to see her return to those events as a subtle circumstantial sub-topic of a much broader tale of private and public loss and grief. Shreve isn’t one of the writers for whom I’d rush out to the bookshop with my credit card burning a hole in my pocket out of sheer excitement to have a new book as soon as possible (I know it’s sad but there are ...  Read the complete review

 

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