the enduring struggle to
the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived. Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve
THE HERETIC’S DAUGHTER is
THE HERETIC’S DAUGHTER is raw, honest and completely captivating. Kathleen Kent takes what would seem to be a familiar subject and gives it a fresh, new perspective-moving us through a wrenching gamut of emotions as she does so. A searing look at one of the worst periods in our history. Anita Shreve
In the time it
In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune’s Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire. Anita Shreve
Reunions are always fraught
Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions – the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions. Anita Shreve
Love and marriage are
Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well. Anita Shreve
But how do you
But how do you ever know that you know a person? Anita Shreve
Odd, she thought, how
Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love – soaked, drenched in love – only to discover later that perhaps you didn’t know that person quite as well as you had imagined. Or weren’t quite as well known as you had hoped to be. In … Read more
And she thought then
And she thought then how strange it was that disaster–the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face–could be at times, such a thing of beauty. Anita Shreve
I loved him Muire
I loved him,” Muire said. “We were in love.” As if that were enough. Anita Shreve
Among other things, Kathryn
Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting. Anita Shreve