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Anita Shreve


Born
in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States
October 07, 1946

Died
March 29, 2018

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Anita Hale Shreve was an American writer, chiefly known for her novels. One of her first published stories, Past the Island, Drifting (published 1975), was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1976.

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Average rating: 3.56 · 596,317 ratings · 44,120 reviews · 128 distinct works • Similar authors
The Pilot's Wife (Fortune's...
3.57 avg rating — 102,904 ratings — published 1998 — 128 editions
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The Stars Are Fire
3.88 avg rating — 44,177 ratings — published 2017 — 33 editions
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Fortune's Rocks (Fortune's ...
3.91 avg rating — 32,144 ratings — published 1999 — 98 editions
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Light on Snow
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Testimony
3.59 avg rating — 31,390 ratings — published 2008 — 62 editions
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The Weight of Water
3.65 avg rating — 29,985 ratings — published 1997 — 94 editions
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Sea Glass (Fortune's Rocks ...
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Body Surfing (Fortune's Roc...
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A Wedding in December
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The Last Time They Met
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“To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.”
― Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife
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“Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.”
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“I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.”
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