The Weight of Water: A Novel
by:
Anita Shreve (author)
Journeying to Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, to shoot a photo essay about a century-old double murder, a photographer becomes absorbed by the crime and increasingly obsessed with jealousy over the idea that her husband is having an affair.
Journeying to Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, to shoot a photo essay about a century-old double murder, a photographer becomes absorbed by the crime and increasingly obsessed with jealousy over the idea that her husband is having an affair.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780316789974 (0316789976)
Publish date: January 1st 1997
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
I couldn't warm to this book. I think it tries too hard, it feels affected, insincere. It's mostly told from the perspective of Jean. She's a photographer sent to get photographs of Smuttynose, Maine, part of the Shoal Islands near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In 1873, it was the setting of a gruesome...
Grimly beautiful book, though I didn't like the historical flashbacks which took me out of the story and which I skipped on the whole. However, the current-day story is superb and the ending is tragically perfect.
Again, the ending blew me away
Some hurts can never be forgotten, can never be assuaged. Some books show us the basest side of human nature. Some viewpoint characters in novels deserve little reader sympathy.Even when evidencing these uncomfortable truths, some books can be great reads in the hands of a talented author.The Weight...
This book was mostly incredibly dull. The only reason I kept reading was because I wanted to find out the resolution of the historical murder. The parts of the book that take place in the modern day, with the family on the boat, were really hard to get through.
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