Anita Shreve
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Review The Pilot's Wife pulls on your emotional strings, and it's difficult to put the book down before turning the last page.-- "Oklahoman"A skillful
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ly crafted exploration of the long reach of tragedy.-- "Amazon.com, editorial review"An evocative...thriller.-- "Kirkus Reviews"Compulsively readable...To create both sympathetic characters and an enticing plot is no small feat, but Shreve does it seamlessly.-- "Orlando Sentinel"Enthralling...Shreve's ear for the hazy dread of a tragedy's immediate aftermath is excellent...She accumulates the details gradually and quietly, bringing to life the grief-stricken Kathryn and Mattie with fascinating exactitude.-- "Minneapolis Star Tribune"Gripping.-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"Highly readable...Shreve is extremely skillful at showing the stages by which someone learns to live with the unthinkable.-- "San Francisco Chronicle"Kathryn's emotional quest is masterfully rendered...We go where Shreve leads because the writing is so sure.-- "San Diego Union-Tribune"Shreve is a superb architect of the emotional landscape, knowing when to reveal and when to withhold.-- "Mesa Tribune"Thoroughly absorbing...from cover to rapidly reached cover.-- "Newsday" Product Description Until now, Kathryn Lyons' life has been peaceful if un-extraordinary: 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 a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone-but nothing has prepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. 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? About the Author Anita Shreve is the critically acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels, including Body Surfing; The Pilot's Wife, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club; and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for England's Orange Prize. In 1998 she received the New England Book Award for Fiction. Her novels have sold more than six million copies and have been translated into thirty-six languages. She began writing fiction while working as a high school teacher and then became a journalist. Withe the publication of her first novel, Eden Close, she gave up journalism to write fiction full time.Melanie Griffith is an American actress who has starred in such films as Body Double, Something Wild, RKO 281, and Stuart Little 2. For her performance in Working Girls, she won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award.
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