Light on Snow
- By Anita Shreve
Full Description
What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and an unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices-face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak and redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonance that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences. ... more
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Critical Praise
"Anita Shreve is by far one of the finest novelists of her time. One cannot help but compare this fine contemporary author with the likes of literary giant Edith Wharton."
–Boston Herald
"To create both sympathetic characters and an enticing plot is no small feat, but Shreve does this seamlessly."
–Orlando Sentinel
"Shreve's ability to build dramatic tension is remarkable." -Baltimore Sun
"Few other contemporary novelists weave past and present so skillfully, capturing the seamless texture of time."
–Newsday
"Her secret is that she simply has the Gift-the ability to hook you from the first page, draw you in and pull you along, though you may kick and scream, and not let go until the final word."
–Washington Post Book World
- Category:
- FICTION
- Format:
- TRADE PAPERBACK
- Publish Date:
- 9/12/2005
- Price:
- $14.99/$16.99
- ISBN:
- 9780316010672
- Pages:
- 336
- Size:
- 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
