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i'm not sure that i can articulate what i liked about this book, so i guess it'll have to be enough for me to just say that i really, really liked it. there was something very satisfying in curling up with this one. ( )
  elisa.saphier | Apr 2, 2013 |
It is a house on the beach that Honora doesn't mind renting. Despite its age and all its flaws, the old house is the perfect place to start off a new marriage. She and her husband, Sexton, throw themselves into fixing it up, just as they throw themselves into their new life together. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for sea glass on the beach, Sexton risks everything they have to buy the house they both love.

Along with the entire population of America, Sexton is blindsided by the stock market crash of 1929 and finds himself penniless. The only work that he is able to find is in the local mill, where a labor dispute is erupting into violence. As their financial pressures continue to mount, Honora begins to see how little she actually knows about this man that she has married.

I think this was a wonderful book - I really found myself caring about the characters, and the plot was very believable to me. I give this book an A+! and will keep it for a while to reread at some point. ( )
  moonshineandrosefire | Aug 7, 2012 |
Well drawn characters, lovely location, what's not to like? THE ENDING!!! Honora Beecher deserves better. ( )
  Carmenere | Jul 29, 2012 |
Enjoyed but it didnt have a strong plot. I didnt find the characters to be really appealing. ( )
  jgodburn | Mar 3, 2012 |
I have read two other Anita Shreve books, the Pilot's Wife and All He Ever Wanted and I enjoyed them both but with Sea Glass I read until around page 160 and gave up. It is just soooooo slow and there is little to no plot development. In addition, the characters are not that interesting and I found that I did not care about any of them.
Each chapter of the book is written in a different character's voice and the chapters vary back and forth between one character and the other. The page numbers increase but I found that the author did not create enough interest in the characters at all. I simply did not care.

Shreve is a good writer and she knows how to write a story but this one fell short for me and as a consequence I just did not want to spend any more time on this particular book. ( )
  seekingbooks3 | Oct 20, 2011 |
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From its opening pages, Anita Shreve's Sea Glass surrounds the reader in the surprisingly rich feeling of the New Hampshire coast in winter. Vividly evoking the life of the coastal community at the beginning of the Great Depression, Sea Glass shifts through the multiple points of view of six principal characters; it's a skillfully created story of braided lives that bounces easily (even inevitably) from character to character. We learn how these lives come together following the stock market crash of 1929 and about the struggles of mill workers on the starkly beautiful New Hampshire coast during the following year. At the novel's center is the story of Honora Beecher, a young newlywed who compulsively collects sea glass along the beach as she collects unexpected friendship in her new beachside community, and Francis, a boy who discovers a father figure in the towering character of McDermott, an Irish mill worker, at a time when he most needs direction. Each character finds unexpected new purpose beyond the struggle to survive during that turbulent year among the dunes. First their lives barely touch, then they intersect, and finally they become inextricably bound. By the powerful and unexpected final scenes of the story, every point of view, every brilliant shard of life depends deeply on all the others. It is a very satisfying read--confidently told and deeply felt--with as many subtle colors and reflections as the sea glass that permeates the narrative. --Paul Ford

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With all the narrative power and emotional immediacy that have made her novels acclaimed international bestsellers, Anita Shreve unfolds a richly engaging tale of marriage, money, and troubled times-the story of a pair of young newlyweds who, setting out to build a life together in a derelict beach house on the Atlantic coast, soon discover how threatening the world outside their front door can be.… (more)

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