Anita Shreve était une romancière américaine célébrée pour ses récits captivants qui explorent les complexités des relations humaines et la résilience de l'esprit humain. Son œuvre se caractérise par une profonde perspicacité psychologique et un talent pour créer des personnages vivants qui résonnent longtemps après la dernière page. La narration de Shreve explore souvent des thèmes d'amour, de perte et de survie, entraînant les lecteurs dans des portraits intimes de vies ordinaires touchées par des circonstances extraordinaires. Ses romans ont captivé des millions de lecteurs dans le monde entier par leur profondeur émotionnelle et leur prose élégante.
Décembre 1943. En pleine occupation nazie, Claire et Henri Daussois, couple de résistants belges, recueillent sous leur toit Ted, soldat américain ayant miraculeusement survécu à l'explosion de son avion. Bientôt, Henri est lui-même obligé de vivre dans la clandestinité : des officiers allemands traquent son réseau sans répit. Restés seuls, Ted et Claire apprennent à se connaître et se rapprochent peu à peu. Mais la barbarie ambiante va rapidement les rappeler à la réalité : entre héroïsme et lâcheté, loyauté et dissimulation, l'hiver 1943 va changer leur vie à jamais.
The Weight of Water On Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, more than a century ago, two Norwegian immigrant women were brutally murdered. A third woman survived by hiding in a cave. In 1995, Jean, a photographer, is sent on an assignment to shoot a photo essay about the legendary crime where unearths letters written by Maren, the sole survivor of the murder spree. Soon her interest becomes an obsession with the ancient story - leading to unrecoverable consequences. Resistance As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Daussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic. But when the B-17 bomber that crash-lands outside Claire's village it contains the man who will be both the last and the most significant of the attic's residents: US Air Force pilot Ted Brice. He is found by ten-year-old Jean Benoit who realises that Claire is the pilot's only hope of survival.
A tale of impossible love in Nazi-occupied Belgium, where forbidden passions have catastrophic consequences. Claire Daussois, the wife of a Belgian resistance worker, shelters a wounded American bomber pilot in a secret attic hideaway. As she nurses him back to health, Claire is drawn into an affair that seems strong enough to conquer all--until the brutal realities of war intrude, shattering every idea she ever had about love, trust, and betrayal. Resistance is a tender but tragic love story, told with the same narrative grace and keen eye for human emotion that have distinguished all of Anita Shreve's cherished bestsellers.
It is the summer of 1899, and Olympia Biddeford and her parents have retired from the heat of Boston to the coastal resort of Fortune's Rocks. When the celebrated essayist John Haskell is invited to stay, no one foresees the affair that is to follow. What begins as the briefest of silences becomes a relationship that is both passionate and destructive - six short weeks that will shape the rest of their lives.
Long before Liane Moriarty captivated readers with her tales, Shreve was already enhancing domestic dramas, and she continues to do so with remarkable skill. In this gripping new novel from the best-selling author of The Pilot's Wife, the story unfolds in 1947, amidst raging fires along the coast of Maine after a summer drought. Grace Holland, five months pregnant, is left to protect her two toddlers when her unpredictable husband, Gene, joins the volunteers battling the flames. Alongside her best friend Rosie and Rosie's children, Grace watches in horror as their homes are consumed by fire, ultimately seeking refuge in the ocean.
As dawn breaks, they miraculously survive but face a new reality: homeless and penniless, they must navigate an uncertain future. With Gene's fate unknown, Grace is thrust into a world where she must rebuild her life from scratch, finding work and a home to support her children. Amidst profound loss, she discovers unexpected joys and freedoms that her previous life with Gene never allowed. Just as she begins to embrace her new independence, an unthinkable event tests her bravery like never before.
Reissue - with a stunning new cover - of Anita Shreve's outstanding second
novel - 'a superbly crafted, intelligent exploration of the complications of
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On Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, more than a century ago, two Norwegian immigrant women were brutally murdered. A third woman survived by hiding in a cave until dawn. In 1995, Jean, a photographer, is sent on an assignment to shoot a photo essay about the legendary crime. Taking her extended family with her, Jean stays in a sailboat anchored off the coast, and finds herself gradually becoming more and more engrossed in the bay's mysterious and gruesome past. Wandering into a library one day, she unearths letters written by Maren, the sole survivor of the murder spree. Jean's fear of losing all that she cares about is reflected in Maren's poignant tale of love and loss, and her obsession with the ancient story drives her to wild impulsive action -- with unrecoverable consequences.
What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and an unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices-face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak and redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonance that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences.
In the textile-manufacturing region of New Hampshire in 1929, newlyweds Honora and Sexton Beecher wrestle with all the wonders and challenges that young couples have always faced. They've just purchased a house near the ocean that needs a lot of work, but the couple is dedicated to making it a home. When the economy fails and a single unscrupulous act perpetrated by Sexton is revealed, more than love will be required to keep the marriage from collapsing under the weight of this betrayal. Sexton -- formerly a traveling salesman -- is forced to take a job at the local mill alongside other men, women, and children whose very survival is being threatened by the harsh burden of their daily toil. Repeated pay cuts and inhumane conditions propel the workers closer to a potentially violent clash with management and union breakers. Alliances are formed, honor is challenged, and character flaws become fatal as the tinderbox explodes, leaving old bonds broken and new ones bolstered.
Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.' As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless scrutiny of her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret life?
