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Sea Glass (CD) | 
 enlarge | Author: Anita Shreve
Creators: Emilia Fox, Kerry Shale
Publisher: Orion
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 663938
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
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Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0752857568
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780752857565
ASIN: 0752857568
Publication Date: July 3, 2003
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Anita Shreve's new novel Sea Glass represents a remarkable advance. She previously caught the attention of many readers with Fortune's Rocks and The Pilot's Wife, beautifully crafted novels with rich and subtly observed characterisation. But however impressive those books were, Sea Glass has the same adroit creation of character, but the prose is even more rich and allusive. This is a story of the human heart, of the demands of the past, and of the necessity for pragmatism in human relationships. It's 1929, and Honora Beecher and her husband Sexton are enjoying their new marriage in a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. Honora is renovating the rundown property and searching for pieces of coloured glass washed up on the beach. Sexton attempts to buy the house they both adore, but with disastrous results: like many other Americans, he is a victim of the stock market crash and is financially wiped out. He is forced to work in a nearby mill, where a labour conflict is having violent results. The couple's struggle to maintain their marriage in the face of dangerous forces that threaten to overwhelm them is vividly and poignantly told. Shreve has written nine novels and throughout her work she has painstakingly honed her storytelling skills with elegance and intelligence. She is particularly skilful at depicting interlocking lives, as in Sea Glass, and adroitly invests each with its own portion of love and tragedy. If you want to be one of the "early adopters" of Shreve's cherishable novels, now is the time: In the wet sand by her foot, a bit of colour catches her eye. The glass is green pale and cloudy, the colour of lime juice that has been squeezed into a glass. She brushes the sand off and presses the sea glass into her palm, keeping it for luck. --Barry Forshaw
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 Love and Hardship August 2, 2008
At the centre of the story are Honora, bank clerk and Sexton, typewriter salesman who meet and marry at the start of the great depression. The love and hardship they face together is beautifully told by Anita Shreve in her very visual style. I am definitely becoming a fan of her work having now read four of her novels including this one.
The main characters all have chapters assigned to them throughout the novel so we can understand how the story progresses from their point of view. We are introduced in this way to McDermott, mill worker and Alphonse the young boy he has chosen to protect, Vivian, wealthy socialite an unlikely group but whose stories all link and merge. There are also a few chapters written as letters from Honora's mother Alice that helps to link the background information together.
Set in New Hampshire during the troubled years of 1929/30, Sea Glass is about the coming together of a motley collection of people in troubled times. It was a strange time for them all as although the strikes and Wall Street crash were affecting them all they were happy that summer of 1930, in their innocence not knowing how disastrously it would all end. As the reader I certainly had no inkling of how things were going to turn out, for me the sign of a well told story. A heartbreaking and vividly descriptive insight into the far reaching consequences of The Wall Street crash and the mill strikes.
I also found absolutely fascinating the descriptions of Sea Glass, those colourful shards of glass smoothed by the sea that one sometimes comes across on beaches. Anita Shreve cleverly uses Honora's collection of these shards as a link throughout.
Subtle but powerful December 27, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Shreve writes elegant and restrained prose, but under the surface, there are deep emotions at work. The story line sounds like a plot from one of those genre novels beloved by little old ladies who take them out from libraries in little wheeled trollies - you know the type, they have a cover picture of a girl in a shawl with her arms crossed, and she's called Maggie, or Sarah, or Nelly, and she fights through hard times to attract the son of the mill owner ...
This is the antithesis of one of those books. The characterisation is subtle, and finely drawn. The plot moves gently but inexorably through peaks and troughs. The interlacing stories meld naturally together, and for readers of her previous novels, returning to Fortune's Rocks feels like returning to a favourite place - although one that changes, and isn't frozen in time.
I also felt I learned a lot about manufacturing in New England at the time. It seems cotton didn't only tyrannise the South.
 Striking and thoughtful June 27, 2007
If you only read one Anita Shreve book, make it this one - and then you'll make time to read many more!
Beautiful descriptions and characterisations draw the reader into the lives of the characters. Shreve is especially good at describing her unlikeable characters as sympathetically as the likeable, so that their situations become fascinating and it is impossible to put the book down. The melancholy beauty of the setting and the nostalgic of the period all add to the enjoyment.
Visting Familiar places at different times. December 5, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the most enjoyable of the more historical Shreve books I have read. Also it is set in the same place as Fortune's Rocks - the main characters live in a house formerly owned by the main people in that previous novel - which is lovely to recognise parts even though the stories and characters are unrelated. Also there is a side story in another Shreve Book - A Wedding in December - which although being set in more modern times features a character fascinated about an event which occured in Halifax harbour in the past. The same event appears in this book in the history of Honora's Uncle. It was another small part which you would not miss if this is the first Shreve book you have read - but it really added to my enjoyment of the book recognising places and events. Excellent story - wonderful characters - un-putdownable!
Worth a read May 19, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just finished this book today. At first I thought I didn't really like how it was written - i.e 'she sets the table' - all in the immediate tense, as though you are watching it happen. It took a few pages to get used to this, but finally I realised that it actually suited the whole story really well. I liked the idea of heading each chapter with a characters name, that chapter being the story from their view. This book has definately made me want to read more of Shreve's books. She doesn't get slushy when other authors might so easily fall into that trap, and never sidelines into a pointless scene. The pace is kept up all the way. A story well told; a page turner.
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