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   Fortune's Rocks

   • Anita Shreve

   • 464 stránok
   • 17 hodin čítania

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   Set 100 years ago in Boston, Fortune's Rocks is a classic of literary and romantic storytelling. Fourteen-year-old Olympic Biddeford is spending the summer with her parents at their seasonal house at Fortune's Rocks. Her father handles her education himself and is in fact a publisher of mildly liberal literature. One author he admires, who also practises as a physician, comes to visit the house. 40 years old, married with four children, he still embarks on an affair with the adolescent girl. They have a swift, passionate summer, torn apart when they are discovered together during Olympic's fifteenth birthday party. She is taken back to Boston, her parents are mortified and remove themselves from society. When Olympic is delivered of a baby boy nine months later, he is taken from her and she finds herself in exile at a ladies college and then as a governess. She decides she must get her child back, which means returning to Fortune's Rocks... This sensuality of a girl's rite of passage, the descriptions of landscape, weather, music and light, are vintage Shreve and her seventh novel will thrill her many admirers.

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   Sea Glass

   • Anita Shreve

   • 368 stránok
   • 13 hodin čítania

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   The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for bits of sea glass on the beach, Sexton risks everything they own to buy the house they both love. Along with millions of other Americans, he is blindsided by the stock market crash and finds himself penniless. The only work he can find is at a nearby mill, where a labour conflict is erupting into violence. Shaken by forces they scarcely understand, Honora and Sexton try to build a marriage and home while overwhelmed by passions of every kind. Writing with the power and immediacy that have made her novels bestsellers, Shreve unfolds interlocking lives, each with its own share of love, loss and challenge. This is another gripping and unforgettable story of the human heart from one of the most accomplished novelists of our time.

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   Pilotova žena

   • Anita Shreve

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   Žena pilota musí stále rátať s tým, že jej v noci zaklopú na dvere so zlou správou. No keď sa Kathryn Lyonsová dozvie, že dopravné lietadlo pilotované jej manželom explodovalo, ocitne sa zoči-voči šokujúcim odhaleniam. Vtiahnutá do víru obrovskej publicity živenej chýrmi o manželovom dvojitom živote sa odhodlá overiť ich pravdivosť, nech to stojí čokoľvek. Okruh otázok, na ktoré hľadá odpoveď na cestách medzi americkým, anglickým a írskym pobrežím, sa však skôr rozširuje, ako zužuje.

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   Body Surfing

   • Anita Shreve

   • 264 stránok
   • 10 hodin čítania

   3,3(593)Ohodnotiť

   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.

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