Rescue: A Novel (Audio)
Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic when he pulls a young woman out of a car wreck that should have killed her. Sheila Arsenault haunts his thoughts, and despite his misgivings Peter is soon embroiled in an intense love affair--and in Sheila's troubled world.Eighteen years later, Sheila is long...
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Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic when he pulls a young woman out of a car wreck that should have killed her. Sheila Arsenault haunts his thoughts, and despite his misgivings Peter is soon embroiled in an intense love affair--and in Sheila's troubled world.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 he has carefully been keeping at bay: Why did a mother leave her family? How did the marriage of two people so deeply in love unravel?A story about trespass and forgiveness, secrets and the seismic force of the truth, Rescue is a masterful portrayal of a family trying to understand its fractured past and begin again.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781607886730 (1607886731)
Publish date: November 30th 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Edition language: Hungarian
Category:
Novels,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Drama,
Family,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Relationships
I've never read an Anita Shreve novel and I'm not sure this was the greatest to begin with. Half way through, I almost turned it off (I listened on audio book). I did not turn it off. The end was the best part but I'm not sure listening to the entire book was worth getting there. Also, I'm not a fan...
2.5 StarsThe more I've thought about this book, the less I've liked it. When I finished it the other day, I rated Rescue three stars on Goodreads. Since I've finished it, I've just got irrationally annoyed by an awful lot of the book. It's a shame, because I think the synopsis on the novel had poten...
I did finish Rescue today, and I remained underwhelmed throughout. I rarely give up on a book so I stuck it out, in part, waiting for the Shreve whammy. A whammy came, but it was predictable--not one that rocks your gut. Not only that, I missed the almost elegiac language of earlier books. If this h...
Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic when he pulls a young woman, Sheila Arsenault, from her totaled car. She's obviously inebriated but Peter falls for her instantly. Soon they are involved in an intense love affair and Sheila becomes pregnant. They marry and baby Rowan is born. All along, Peter was...
This was a good story although the writing felt choppy at times. I was completely lost in the EMT jargon but that's just me. The same thing happens while watching hospital shows/movies too and unless I have the background music indicating perilous doom, I have no clue what all the codes they're yel...