Strange Fits Of Passion

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Summary: It doesn't get any better than this...
Review: This is one of my favorite books, ever.

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Summary: Anita Shreve is a winner again!
Review: This is the third Anita Shreve book I've read, and they are among my favorite books every time. This tells the story of a woman escaping NYC and her abusive husband and heading to a sleepy Maine fishing town.
While the story itself is intriguing, the medium in which it is told makes the book stellar. It is told in letters to a reporter writing a story for a magazine. Twenty years later, the reporter is giving the interview letters to the abused woman's daughter. The interview letters are coming from the victim in jail, so that is established at the very beginning; the reader can guess what ultimately happened, but the getting there is the best part.

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Summary: Another page-turner by Anita Shreve
Review: this story by Anita Shreve grabs you and holds to the very last page and will stay with you forever. When I find an author I enjoy, I go back to the very first one written and buy all of them. I love to watch the author grow. Ms Shreve writes truly in elgaic prose and can only get better with each written word.
Murder with a Message one reviewer wrote, but such tantalizing maneuvers, such explicit descriptions, pathos and terror.
Domestic violence is never forgivable and any who reads this will want to shake Mary til she comes to her senses.
Read this wonderful book and you will be a fan of Ms Shreve's forever.