Sea Glass: A Novel
by Anita Shreve
ISBN: 0316780812
Price: 25.95

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Publisher/ Date: Little Brown Company / 04-2002
Format: Hardcover

Synopsis: The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for bits of sea glass on the beach, Sexton risks everything they own to buy the house they both love. Along with millions of other Americans, he is blindsided by the stock market crash and finds himself penniless. The only work he can find is in a nearby mill, where a labor conflict is erupting into violence. Shaken by forces they scarcely understand, Honora and Sexton try to build a marriage and a home while overwhelmed by passions of every kind.

Writing with the power and immediacy that have made her novels bestsellers, Shreve unfolds interlocking lives, each with its own share of love, loss, and challenge. This is another gripping and unforgettable story of the human heart from one of the most accomplished novelists of our time.

About the Author
Anita Shreve is the author of many acclaimed novels, including Resistance, The Weight of Water, Fortune's Rocks, The Last Time They Met, and the international bestseller The Pilot's Wife, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club. She lives in New England.

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