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Loading... The Pilot's Wife (Oprah's Book Club) (edition 1999)by Anita Shreve
Work detailsThe Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
Predictable, boring, kept thinking Anita Shreve is not some forumula-romance author and it has to get better. I was wrong. (  ) JeanetteSkwor | Apr 17, 2013 |  It was one of the first non True Crime English books I'd read thanks to bookcrossing and I remember I really enjoyed reading it and it made me read more books picked by Oprah. (  ) Marlene-NL | Apr 12, 2013 | Transferred from my spreadsheet to Goodreads  sally906 | Apr 3, 2013 | The Pilot's Wife in a nutshell: Jack Lyons, a commercial pilot, is flying a plane when it explodes. The book follows the grieving process of his widow, as she tries to figure out what happened in that plane. The overriding question in the book is "How well can we ever really know someone else?" There wasn't anything really wrong with the book, it was just overly gray for my taste. I don't think the sun shines in the entire book. It was solidly written though, and it did keep me turning pages. I did have a vague idea where the whole thing was going from about a third of the way through. I wasn't exactly right, but I was close. This really was not my kind of book. I have a feeling it would appeal to fans of Nicholas Sparks. In fact, my mom is a huge fan of his and I sent her this book to read today. (  ) JG_IntrovertedReader | Apr 3, 2013 | I liked this book and would really rate it at 3.5 stars. ( ) Readermom68 | Apr 3, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0316601950, Paperback)Oprah Book Club® Selection, March 1999: With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve now offers a skillfully crafted exploration of the long reach of tragedy in The Pilot's Wife. News of Jack Lyons's fatal crash sends his wife into shock and emotional numbness:Kathryn wished she could manage a coma. Instead, it seemed that quite the opposite had happened: She felt herself to be inside of a private weather system, one in which she was continuously tossed and buffeted by bits of news and information, sometimes chilled by thoughts of what lay immediately ahead, thawed by the kindness of others ... frequently drenched by memories that seemed to have no regard for circumstance or place, and then subjected to the nearly intolerable heat of reporters, photographers and curious on-lookers. It was a weather system with no logic, she had decided, no pattern, no progression, no form.The situation becomes even more dire when the plane's black box is recovered, pinning responsibility for the crash on Jack. In an attempt to clear his name, Kathryn searches for any and all clues to the hours before the flight. Yet each discovery forces her to realize that she didn't know her husband of 16 years at all. Shreve's complex and highly convincing treatment of Kathryn's dilemma, coupled with intriguing minor characters and an expertly paced plot, makes The Pilot's Wife really take off. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:17:02 -0500) After his plane explodes, a pilot's wife hears rumors that he led a secret life, and she decides to find out who her husband really was. (summary from another edition) |
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