Summary
I watched my father run forward in his snowshoes the way one sometimes does in dreams, unable to make the legs move fast enough. I ran to the place where he knelt. I looked down into the sleeping bag. A tiny face gazed up at me, the eyes wide despite their many folds. The baby was wrapped in a bloody towel, and its lips were blue.
The events of a December afternoon on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow will forever alter eleven-year-old Nicky Dillon’s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349118567 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349118566 |
| Author: | Anita Shreve |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2005 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 19mm |
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This story touches the very deepest human emotions … Chaucerian in its intense sympathy and its appealing universality … Shreve’s style is fluent and unpretentious, with an irresistible rhythmic and narrative impetus that keeps you up, reading ever faster, all night … Perceptive, gripping and ultimately exhilarating, this is a very fine book indeed - Sue Gaisford, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Anita Shreve’s eleventh novel plunges the reader straight into a gripping narrative … This is Shreve at her poised best, and her controlled, crisply understated prose makes her emotive subject all the more affecting - DAILY MAILFull of emotional depth, it’s not a comfortable read but one that will stay with you a long time. Oprah says that if a book doesn’t grab her in the first 50 pages, she moves on. There’ll be no need for that - ‘Read it - Star Choice’DAILY MIRROR - ‘Emotionally rich … it’s the literary equivalent of a snuggly blanket on a snowy night’About The Author
Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve is the author of twelve novels including the international bestsellers The Pilot’s Wife, a selection of Oprah’s Book Club, and The Weight of Water, short listed for the Orange Prize.
Author Location: Massachusetts, USA
12 novels including Eden Close, The Weight of Water, The Pilot’s Wife, All He Ever Wanted, Fortune’s Rocks, Sea Glass, Light on Snow, Body Surfing.
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