Sea Glass
by:
Anita Shreve (author)
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...
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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 in a nearby mill, where a labor conflict is erupting into violence. Shaken by forces they scarcely understand, Honora and Sexton try to build a marriage and a 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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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780316780810 (0316780812)
ASIN: 316780812
Publish date: April 9th 2002
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
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...
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