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Strange Fits of Passion - Anita Shreve

Description: ISBN 0349105863 / Author: Anita Shreve / Genre: Fiction

Newest Review: ... by the author. There are a mixture of these. Some are transcripts taken from interviews held with local townspeople from ... more

... where the central character lived, but the bulk are the notes made by the woman herself while she was in jail awaiting trial. Because the book is written like this, right from the start the reader knows that the woman has done something terrible although we are left to try and work out what it might be until right towards the end. The woman in question is Mary Amesbury, once known as Maureen English, who has fled from her New York home along with her baby daughter Caroline, in order to escape her abusive, bullying husband...more

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Strange Fits of Passion - Anita Shreve: A passionate book! (964 words)
by - written on 27/01/08 (Very useful, 151 readings)
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Strange Fits of Passion is the first book I have read by Anita Shreve, even though she is an author who has been around for quite a long time. When I first started reading this book I wasn't sure that I liked the style and I didn't think I was going to enjoy it! How wrong could I be? It is a fabulous book with a very strong story which I found both riveting and absorbing! Thr story is written in quite an unusual way and I think this did give me problems at the start. It begins in what is the present day, although as the book was written in 1992, that is actually quite a while ago. It begins with an autor talking about how she writes her books, and I wasn't ... Read the complete review

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