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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 · 600,584 ratings · 44,550 reviews · 123 distinct works • Similar authors
The Pilot's Wife (Fortune's...
3.57 avg rating — 103,443 ratings — published 1998 — 128 editions
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The Stars Are Fire
3.88 avg rating — 44,595 ratings — published 2017 — 33 editions
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Fortune's Rocks (Fortune's ...
3.91 avg rating — 32,371 ratings — published 1997
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Light on Snow
3.67 avg rating — 34,228 ratings — published 2004
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Testimony
3.59 avg rating — 31,551 ratings — published 2008 — 62 editions
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The Weight of Water
3.65 avg rating — 30,158 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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Sea Glass (Fortune's Rocks ...
3.71 avg rating — 28,390 ratings — published 2002 — 84 editions
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Body Surfing (Fortune's Roc...
3.36 avg rating — 21,484 ratings — published 2007 — 70 editions
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A Wedding in December
3.15 avg rating — 21,949 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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The Last Time They Met
3.49 avg rating — 19,204 ratings — published 2001 — 92 editions
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Fortune's Rocks Sea Glass The Pilot's Wife Body Surfing
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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.”
― Anita Shreve, Fortune's Rocks
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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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