Anita Shreve


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

Died
March 29, 2018

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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.

Average rating: 3.56 · 593,945 ratings · 43,841 reviews · 124 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Pilot's Wife (Fortune's...

3.57 avg rating — 102,584 ratings — published 1998 — 21 editions
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The Stars Are Fire

3.88 avg rating — 43,963 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions
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Fortune's Rocks (Fortune's ...

3.91 avg rating — 32,080 ratings — published 1999 — 98 editions
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Light on Snow

3.66 avg rating — 33,915 ratings — published 2004 — 82 editions
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Testimony

3.59 avg rating — 31,307 ratings — published 2008 — 62 editions
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The Weight of Water

3.65 avg rating — 29,897 ratings — published 1997 — 94 editions
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Sea Glass (Fortune's Rocks ...

3.71 avg rating — 28,077 ratings — published 2002 — 84 editions
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Body Surfing (Fortune's Roc...

3.36 avg rating — 21,275 ratings — published 2007 — 70 editions
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A Wedding in December

3.14 avg rating — 21,819 ratings — published 2005 — 85 editions
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The Last Time They Met

3.49 avg rating — 19,051 ratings — published 2001 — 92 editions
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“To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.”
Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife

“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.”
Anita Shreve, Fortune's Rocks

“I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.”
Anita Shreve, Light on Snow

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