| | 38,541 (38,624) | 936 | 385 |  (3.42) | 119 | 0 | Anita Shreve grew up in Dedham, Massachusetts. After receiving a bachelor's degree in English from Tufts University, she taught high school English for five years before becoming a full-time author. She worked for an English-language magazine in Nairobi and wrote for everything from Cosmopolitan magazine to The New York Times. Her nonfiction books included Remaking Motherhood and Women Together, Women Alone. Her novels included Eden Close, Strange Fits of Passion, Where or When, Fortune's Rocks, Rescue, Stella Bain, and The Stars are Fire. Several of her books were made into movies including The Pilot's Wife, Resistance, and The Weight of Water. She died from cancer on March 29, 2018 at the age of 71. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Pilot's Wife … (more) |
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Anita Shreve has 18 past events. (show)  Body Surfing by Anita Shreve: Agave Book Discussion Group The Agave Book Discussion Group welcomes all to join us on the third Thursday of each month! Come and discuss a book chosen by the group. This month's discussion will feature: Body Surfing by Anita Shreve. (DoctorFate) Anita Shreve: Stella Bain *at Longfellow Books* Stella Bain by Anita Shreve Saturday, November 23rd, 6:00pm at Longfellow Books An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve... When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but she can't remember anything prior to four months earlier when she was found wounded on a French battlefield.
In a narrative that takes us from London to America and back again, Shreve has created an engrossing and wrenching tale about love and the meaning of memory, set against the haunting backdrop of a war that destroyed an entire generation. "Shreve's 17th novel is a tragic yet hopeful story of love, memory, loss, and rebuilding ... The novel is both tender and harsh ... Shreve's thoughtful, provocative historical tale has modern resonance." -Publishers Weekly
Join us to hear award-winning author, Anita Shreve, read from her newest novel, ask your questions and get your books signed! As always, Longfellow Books events are free and open to the public.
Location: Street: One Monument Way City: Portland, Province: Maine Postal Code: 04101-4078 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more) Anita ShreveStella Bain Anita ShreveStella Bain  Anita Shreve, Stella Bain When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but she can't remember anything prior to four months earlier when she was found wounded on a French battlefield. In a narrative that takes us from London to America and back again, Shreve has created an engrossing and wrenching tale about love and the meaning of memory, set against the haunting backdrop of a war that destroyed an entire generation.
Anita Shreve is the acclaimed author of 16 previous novels, including Rescue, A Change in Altitude, Testimony, The Pilot's Wife, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club, and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for England's Orange prize. She lives in Massachusetts.
Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Anita Shreve Anita Shreve reads from Rescue. Peter Webster is a rookie paramedic when he pulls a young woman out of a car wreck that should have killed her. Sheila haunts his thoughts, and despite his misgivings, Peter is soon embroiled in an intense love affair. Nineteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone—until a phone call from Sheila alters their quiet existence, bringing long-buried questions back to the surface. 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 own fractured past and begin again. Anita Shreve is the acclaimed author of 15 previous novels, including A Change in Altitude, Testimony, and The Pilot’s Wife, which was an Oprah Book Club selection. (jasbro)… (more) Anita Shreve Anita Shreve reads from A Change in Altitude. Dedham native Anita Shreve helps us celebrate the Grand Opening of the new Legacy Place store with a special event. Celebrate our Grand Opening all weekend, June 25-27. Live music, family fun, author signings, enter-to-win prizes and more! (BordersEvents) Anita Shreve for A Change in Altitude Anita Shreve , A Change in Altitude. Author: Anita Shreve began writing fiction while working as a high school teacher. Although one of her first published stories, Past the Island, Drifting, was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1975, Anita felt she couldn't make a living as a fiction writer so she became a journalist. She traveled to Africa, and spent three years in Kenya, writing articles that appeared in magazines such as Quest, US, and Newsweek. Back in the United States, she turned to raising her children and writing freelance articles for magazines. Anita later expanded two of these articles — both published in The New York Times Magazine — into the nonfiction books: Remaking Motherhood and Women Together, Women Alone. At the same time, Anita also began working on her first novel, Eden Close. With its publication in 1989, she gave up journalism for writing fiction full time, thrilled, as she says, with "the rush of freedom that I could make it up." Since Eden Close, Anita has written eleven other novels: Strange Fits of Passion, Where or When, Resistance, The Weight of Water, The Pilot's Wife, Fortune's Rocks, The Last Time They Met, Sea Glass, All He Ever Wanted, Light on Snow, A Wedding in December and, most recently, Body Surfing. In 1998, Anita received the PEN/L. L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction. More at www.AnitaShreve.com
Title: A Change in Altitude, $26.99 Hardcover, ISBN 9780316020701, On Sale Date: September 22, 2009
What: Anita Shreve will talk about her New Book, her life, her work, answer audience questions and she will autograph copies of her New Book purchased from Rainy Day Books, on our website and / or at our Author Event, that are accompanied by a Stamped Ticket.
When: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 7:00 PM Where: A Rainy Day Books Author Event at Unity Temple on The Plaza, Sanctuary, 707 W 47th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64112
Admission Package (Click on the ADD TO SHOPPING CART button): $26.99 plus Tax, includes from Rainy Day Books, One (1) Stamped Ticket, One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) and One (1) Copy of A Change in Altitude (Hardcover) to be Autographed after the Author Presentation. Please specify your need for One (1) Stamped Ticket and One (1) Guest Ticket (if needed) in the Notes field of your Online Order. If you choose Option 1 for In-Store Pick-Up, then you can specify At-Event Pick-Up in the Notes field of your Online Order. Thank you. Book Orders can be shipped worldwide.
All Author Event Book Sales are Final and Non-Returnable. (booksense)… (more) Anita Shreve Anita Shreve reads from A Change in Altitude. The woman behind The Pilot’s Wife, Testimony and The Weight of Water (plus eleven other beloved, bestselling novels) returns with the story of a 28 year-old newlywed who moves to Kenya, only to have her marriage, her sense of self and her understanding of the world shaken to the core. A Change in Altitude once again proves Shreve’s masterful ability to show how lives can turn on the axis of a single event. (ablachly)… (more)
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