Pilot's Wife A Novel

Name: Pilot's Wife A Novel
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ISBN: 9780316601955

ISBN-10: 0316601950

ISBN-13: 9780316601955

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Anita Shreve

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Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone - but nothing has prepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 3/30/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.37" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Anita Shreve grew up in Dedham, Massachusetts. After graduating from Tufts University, she taught high school for a number of years in and around Boston. She is the author of the international bestseller The Pilot's Wife, which was a selection of Oprah's Book Club. Her other works include Eden Close, Strange Fits of Passion, Where or When, Resistance, The Weight of Water (a finalist for the prestigious Orange Prize), Fortune's Rocks, and Rescue. In 1998, she received the PEN/L. L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction. Her title Stella Bain made the New York Times Best Seller List in 2013.