false <![CDATA[Light on Snow]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166668978m/14965.jpg 14965 29 A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots Wife. <P>The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the 11-year-old girls understanding of the world and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put an unthinkable tragedy behind him; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made; and a detective whose cleverness is exceeded only by his sense of justice. <P>Written from the point of view of 30-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid images of that fateful December, her tale is one of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself. 3165570 2004 Light on Snow total:5205|5:564|4:1844|3:2148|2:582|1:67| 5205 17871 6438 583 2 3 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 22:26:15 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 22:35:50 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 2 false false Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 09:55:46 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 14:54:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false true Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 20:45:26 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 18:19:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 07:11:47 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 07:18:45 -0800 2009
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It's a character driven book, told by Nicky, the daughter of Robert Dillon. These are two people who have experienced much pain and tragedy in their lives. Nicky has...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 08:16:15 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 07:22:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Nov 26 22:15:28 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 19:35:24 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 1 0 true true Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 25 19:13:41 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 23:09:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 09:46:52 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 17:43:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 20:41:28 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 10:33:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 13:56:20 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 18:22:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 20:24:15 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 20:25:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 08:47:13 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 15:08:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Sat Sep 26 19:10:14 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 15:35:13 -0700 2009
The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the 11-y...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:28:54 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:28:54 -0800 2009 Critics agree that Light on Snow is not Shreve's best work. One called it simplistic, while another complained that the characters' actions were not believable. Some questioned Shreve's decision to tell the story from the point of view of an adult Nicky, whose removal from the events deprives the na...

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