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All He Ever Wanted - Anita Shreve

Description: ISBN 0349115583 / Author: Anita Shreve / Genre: Fiction / A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He ... more

All He Ever Wanted - Anita Shreve ... approaches her and sets in motion a series of events that will change his life forever.

Newest Review: ... parallels the story itself – as Nicolas's feelings for Etna grow, her aloofness develops as well. I found this was a stroke ... more

... of genius on Shreve's part. The timeline of this story starts in 1899 and ends in 1933. This gives Shreve the leeway to use more formal language than a contemporary story would have. What's more, since Nicolas is a professor of literature, Shreve gives us perfect syntax and grammar throughout the story. This too adds to the reader's feeling of juxtaposing the unemotional and the passionate. While Nicolas expresses his adoration for Etna, we also feel that he is far from being a warm person. We also feel Et...more

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All He Ever Wanted - Anita Shreve: But I wanted a bit more (891 words)
by TheChocolateLady - written on 29/04/07 (Very useful, 130 readings)
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Nicolas Van Tassel was enjoying a quiet meal when the fire broke out in the hotel's kitchen. Luckily he escaped, and there, among the survivors was Etna Bliss. For Nicolas, it was love at first sight, and from that moment on, Etna was all he ever wanted. Anita Shreve's "All He Ever Wanted" is a story of one man's obsession with a woman who wanted something else. Shreve indicates early in the novel that the relationship between Nicolas and Etna has an unhappy conclusion. She does this by narrating the story in Nicolas' voice, and making the book a journal of his life, written years later. This mechanic works effectively in that hindsight allows ...

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