La maison du bord de mer
ISBN:
9782714439505 (2714439500)
Pages no: 390
Edition language: French
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
Sea glass begins as normal shards of broken glass that are then persistently tumbled and ground until the sharp edges are smoothed and rounded. In this process, the glass loses its slick surface but gains a frosted appearance.This was the first book I've read by Anita Shreve and I enjoyed the steady...
I just loved this book. Every detail is so beautifully written, even if it as small as describing someone smoking a cigarette or the way the wind blows someone's hair off their face. Anita Shreve can take a complex relationship between a newly married couple, pepper in a cast of neighbors and cowo...
I really enjoyed this book. Anita Shreve's writing is so vivid; she transplants me to the place and time. and things seem so real. I would have chosen a different ending, but fiction, as in life, doesn't always turn out the way we want. I highly recommend this book.
Audiobook. This book starts out about a budding romance, moves on to marriage and how you see things in your spouse you never paid attention before and then moves onto survival, both of marriage and your way of life. Honora meets and marries Sexton, learning to love him. He's a salesman willing t...
I quite liked the plot of this book, and loved Shreve's characters, as usual. But I admit that I tire of swearing in novels, most especially when it seems anachronistic. I'm so tired of finding the f-bomb riddled throughout novels set in the 1910s and 20s. It's only been in my generation that I find...