Olympia - Anita Shreve

All He Ever Wanted - Anita Shreve

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 the narrator to include things he did not actually observe when the events were taking place. This also allows us ...

All He Ever Wanted - Anita Shreve

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 the narrator to include things he did not actually observe when the events were taking place. This also allows us ...

Sea Glass - Anita Shreve

only buying ones that I know I will read again. I discover new authors all the time and so it came about that I recently chanced upon a book by Anita Shreve. I didn’t know anything about the author, but it seems that she is well known in literacy circles and her books are consistently bestsellers. Normally I would add a short biography at this point but the author interviews on the Internet were quite brief, mostly about her books, not the author herself. It appears that she writes mostly about the area of New Hampshire where she lives and her books tend to be based around certain locations. Like me, she has a strong affinity with the sea and her characters are drawn ...

Sea Glass - Anita Shreve

only buying ones that I know I will read again. I discover new authors all the time and so it came about that I recently chanced upon a book by Anita Shreve. I didn’t know anything about the author, but it seems that she is well known in literacy circles and her books are consistently bestsellers. Normally I would add a short biography at this point but the author interviews on the Internet were quite brief, mostly about her books, not the author herself. It appears that she writes mostly about the area of New Hampshire where she lives and her books tend to be based around certain locations. Like me, she has a strong affinity with the sea and her characters are drawn ...

Eden Close - Anita Shreve

Eden Close is the second Anita Shreve novel I have read after being very impressed with Strange Fits of Passion. I was not at all disappointed with this latest read although I was expecting something a bit different as mistakenly, before I read it, I was expecting Eden Close to be a place whereas in fact she is a young woman. The story is set in a small town in America and is in the present day although you have to bear in mind that this book was written in 1989. It does quite often have flashbacks to events that happened fifteen years before and these are crucial to what happens to the characters later on. A brief summary of the story is that Andrew returns to his ...

Eden Close - Anita Shreve

Eden Close is the second Anita Shreve novel I have read after being very impressed with Strange Fits of Passion. I was not at all disappointed with this latest read although I was expecting something a bit different as mistakenly, before I read it, I was expecting Eden Close to be a place whereas in fact she is a young woman. The story is set in a small town in America and is in the present day although you have to bear in mind that this book was written in 1989. It does quite often have flashbacks to events that happened fifteen years before and these are crucial to what happens to the characters later on. A brief summary of the story is that Andrew returns to his ...