Anita Shreve Livres

Sur une plage du New Hampshire au tournant du siècle dernier, une jeune femme traverse un passage tumultueux vers l'âge adulte. Olympia Biddeford, fille unique d'un couple influent de Boston, est précoce, bien éduquée et pleine d'idées. Son été dans la maison familiale à Fortune's Rocks est bouleversé par l'arrivée d'un médecin, ami de son père, dont le livre sur les ouvriers des villes industrielles fait sensation. Olympia est fascinée par sa pensée, sa stature et son désir de faire le bien, tout en étant submergée par un désir sexuel irrésistible. Elle et le médecin—un homme marié, père et presque trois fois son âge—entament une liaison impensable et passionnée. Écartant la décence, Olympia avance vers des conséquences cataclysmiques, le prix à payer pour avoir dévié dans une époque impitoyable. Rejetée du monde qu'elle connaît, elle doit réinventer sa vie brisée et revendiquer ce qui lui est essentiel. Ce récit explore la vie érotique des femmes, les préjugés de classe, et dresse le portrait d'une jeune femme inoubliable, offrant un drame narratif magnifiquement écrit par l'une des romancières les plus accomplies de notre époque.

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.

Dans les paysages enneigés du Massachusetts, un huis clos intense et envoûtant autour de sept amis réunis après plus de vingt ans. Une variation subtile et poignante sur les rendez-vous manqués, la difficulté de tout recommencer et les affres de la création, sublimée par l'attention extrême d'Anita Shreve aux moindres frémissements de l'âme humaine. Pour célébrer leur mariage, Bill et Bridget ont décidé de rassembler leur ancien groupe d'amis. Un moyen de rattraper le temps, alors que les jours de Bridget sont comptés. Que rêvaient-ils d'être et que sont-ils tous devenus ? Vingt ans après, quels secrets brûlent-ils de dévoiler ou voudraient-ils garder enfouis ? Entre passions inavouées, drames refoulés, culpabilité et pardon, tous vont devoir affronter les blessures et les vérités qui les hantent depuis tant d'années.

Dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre du début du XXe siècle, l'histoire d'une passion amoureuse ravagée par la jalousie. Un roman intense et violent sur le désir, le mensonge et la trahison, porté par l'écriture élégante et subtile d'Anita Shreve. Lors du voyage en train qui l'emmène en Virginie, Nicholas Van Tassel, austère professeur d'université, retrace l'histoire de son mariage avec Etna Bliss et son amour pour elle, insensé et absolu. Trente ans plus tôt, Nicholas aperçoit Etna pour la première fois. À cet instant, il n'a plus qu'une obsession : conquérir cette femme mystérieuse et singulière, l'épouser pour ne jamais la perdre. Des années durant, la passion brûlante de Nicholas se heurte à la froideur implacable de son épouse. Retranchée derrière un mur de silence et de secrets, incapable de lui rendre son amour, Etna poussera son mari au désespoir, jusqu'au drame...

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.

STRANGE FITS OF PASSION A successful journalist, Maureen English appears to have the perfect life. But her husband has a tendency towards alcohol and abuse and so Maureen takes her daughter and flees. In a Maine fishing town she assumes a new identity and spends six weeks battling sub-zero temperatures, intrusive townsfolk and fear of discovery. She soon settles into the rhythms of a new life. But this calming respite is about to come crashing to an end . . . WHERE OR WHEN When Charles Callahan sees on a newspaper photograph of Sian Richards, a woman he loved when they were both only thirteen, he is in no position to do anything about it. He has been faithfully married for years, but Charles cannot bear his curiosity, and decides to get in touch. The two meet and are forced to come to terms with the nature of erotic love and betrayal in an age of shifting values.

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.

Twenty years ago a violent act shattered Eden Close's world. Now a former neighbor, Andrew, returns for his mother's funeral and to find out what really happened to Eden

"I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?" The question is posed by Jean, a photographer, who arrives on Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, to research a century-old crime. As she immerses herself in the details of the case--an outburst of passion that resulted in the deaths of two women--Jean herself enters precarious emotional territory. The suspicion that her husband is having an affair burgeons into jealousy and distrust, and ultimately propels Jean to the verge of actions she had not known herself capable of--actions with horrific consequences. Everywhere hailed for its beauty and power, The Weight of Water takes us on an unforgettable journey through the furthest extremes of emotion.

Reissue - with a stunning new cover - of Anita Shreve's outstanding second novel - 'a superbly crafted, intelligent exploration of the complications of an abusive relationship' BOOKLIST

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 face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak or redemption. Writing with all the emotional richness 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. <!-- end main content -->

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?

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment. Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest work, Anita Shreve delivers in TESTIMONY a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller. No one more compellingly explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, the needs and fears that drive ordinary men and women into intolerable dilemmas, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions.

"An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but she can't remember anything prior to four months earlier when she was found wounded on a French battlefield. In a narrative that takes us from London to America and back again, Shreve has created an engrossing and wrenching tale about love and the meaning of memory, set against the haunting backdrop of a war that destroyed an entire generation."

Is love always worth saving - no matter what the cost? The car crash should have killed her. But rookie paramedic Peter Webster takes the emergency call, and helps the young woman, Sheila Arsenault, to survive. After the accident, she haunts his thoughts, despite his misgivings about getting involved with a patient. Soon he is embroiled in an intense love affair and in Sheila's troubled life. Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off course and for the first time in their quiet life together Peter fears for her future. He seeks out the only person who may be able to help Rowan, although Sheila's return is sure to unleash all the questions Peter has been carefully keeping at bay: Why would a mother leave her family? How did the marriage of two people in love unravel?

When Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes meet at a writers' festival in Toronto, it is a first time they have seen each other for twenty-six years., Theirs is a story bound by the irresistible pull of true passion - a love which begins in Massachusetts in the early 1960s, is rekindled in Kenya in the mid 1970s and which is about to play out its astonishing final episode... Written with reverse chronology, Anita Shreve's new novel is a haunting story of mesmerising beauty, with a strong narrative pull that inescapably draws the reader in, and leaves its most stunning revelation until the very last sentence. Brilliantly ambitious and powerfully written, THE LAST TIME THEY MET is a tale not so much of life, but of a life not lived.

At the age of twenty-nine, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to find her footing again, she has answered an advertisement to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt is threatened. With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant insight into real emotion that has led her to be called 'a supremely elegant anatomist of the human heart' (The Times), Shreve weaves a story about risk, family, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.

When Charles Callahan chances on a newspaper photograph of Sian Richards, a woman he loved when they were both only thirteen, he is hardly in a position to do anything about it. He has been faithfully married for years and his Rhode Island real estate business has been hit hard by the recession. He is scrambling to stave off bankruptcy and save his house. But Charles cannot resist the hand of fate. He writes to Sian, now a poet living with a family of her own on a farm in upstate New York. Three decades after they last saw each other, the two lovers meet. Powerfully drawn together once again, Charles and Sian are forced to come to terms with the nature of erotic love and betrayal, moral quandaries in an age of shifting values, and the elusive nature of time. Struggling to reclaim what once they lost, they set in motion a passionate and tumultuous series of events that moves to a shocking conclusion.

Struggling to maintain her sense of self while spending the first year of her marriage in Kenya, Margaret participates in a climbing expedition to Mt. Kenya and is challenged to come to terms with a devastating accident.

"A marriage is always two intersecting stories." This realization comes perhaps too late to the husband of Etna Bliss-a man whose obsession with his young wife begins at the moment of their first meeting, as he helps Etna and her companions escape from a fire in a hotel restaurant, and culminates in a marriage doomed by secrets and betrayal. Written with the intelligence and grace that are the hallmarks of Anita Shreve's bestselling novels, this gripping tale of desire, jealousy, and loss is peopled by unforgettable characters as real as the emotions that bring them together.

The thoughts of seven women on how their lives have changed since they joined the women's movement in the early seventies, each of whose lives is a fascinating paradigm for 20 years of social change.

Amerikanische Autorin, geb. 1946. Gefesselt in Seide: In panischer Angst vor ihrem Mann flieht Maureen mit ihrem Baby aus New York in ein entlegenes Fischerdorf. Hier endlich findet sie Wärme und Liebe. Doch schon bald spürt ihr Mann sie auf, und die Tragödoe nimmt ihren Lauf Eine gefangene Liebe: Nach vielen Jahren begegnen sich Charles und Sian - sie blieb die große Sehnsucht seines Lebens seit den Ferien in einem Sommercamp. Schon das erste Wiedersehn löst die magische Anziehungskraft erneut aus

"Lo que prometía ser un verano tranquilo se convierte en una encrucijada llena de desengaños, traiciones, amor y, por supuesto, mucho bodysurf"--Cubierta.

/ 9044303317 / Literature translated into Dutch / Nederlands / Dutch / Néerlandais / Niederländisch / soft cover / 14 x 21 cm / 288 .pp /

Eine junge Frau flieht mit ihrem Baby vor ihrem brutalen Ehemann in ein kleines Fischerdorf. Eines Tages holt die Vergangenheit sie ein. - Thriller.