Body Surfing: A Novel - Hardcover

Shreve, Anita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316059854 ISBN 13: 9780316059855

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2007

Synopsis

At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage.

But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt for herself is threatened. With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant insight into the human heart that has led her to be called "an author at one with her métier" (Miami Herald), Shreve weaves a novel about marriage, family, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.

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Review:

As usual, Shreve's powerful storytelling pulls you in like a rip tide (MARIE CLAIRE)

Relationships in all their guises are Shreve's thing; she fascinated by what binds us together and flings us apart . . . Like all Shreve's novels, BODY SURFING examines not only the creation but the breakdown of numerous relationships in their different (GLAMOUR)

More heart-wrenching from the queen of the emotional rollercoaster (DAILY MIRROR)

Shreve writes about emotional dramas and she writes about them well . . . [she has] a talent for intense and catastrophic moments . . . If you have to brand something as the perfect beach or comfort read, then this would be it (EVENING STANDARD)

Book Description:

The bestselling author of A WEDDING IN DECEMBER returns with a scintillating new novel about a young widow torn between two brothers during one long New England summer

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0316059854
• ISBN 13: 9780316059855
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 291