Featuring a new Afterword by Balaam, this collection contains the novel The Country of Pointed Firs and several stories in which Jewett explores the world of the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous towns along Maine's coast. Revised reissue.
Featuring a new Afterword by Balaam, this collection contains the novel The Country of Pointed Firs and several stories in which Jewett explores the w...
Nineteen years after inexplicably leaving her family, Sheila returns, bringing long-buried questions to the surface. Shreve's tale of trespass and forgiveness, secrets and the seismic force of the truth portray a family trying to understand its fractured past to begin again.
Nineteen years after inexplicably leaving her family, Sheila returns, bringing long-buried questions to the surface. Shreve's tale of trespass and for...
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...
An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffer...