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All He Ever Wanted
by Shreve, Anita
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316861146
- ISBN 13
- 9780316861144
- Seller
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Little, Brown & Co, 2003. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Little, Brown & Co., London, 2003. First edition. Book condition: near fine - very slight tanning to the paper and a very minor lean to the spine. Dust jacket condition: near fine & unclipped with only the slightest shelf wear to the edges. It is a fire in a New Hampshire hotel that brings Nicholas Van Tassel and Etna Bliss together - two strangers grateful to have escaped the burning building with their lives. For Nicholas, it is also a chance meeting that lights up a lifelong passion, and sets in motion a pursuit of Etna that is to end in their marriage. But their life in the town of Thrupp is not everything they could have imagined. Many years later, on a train to Florida, Nicholas recounts their courtship,and their time together. as the threads of the story begin to unravel, what is revealed is a patchwork of promises, truths, secrets and lies, and a man, madly in love, for whom his wife is all he ever wanted...
Synopsis
"A marriage is always two intersecting stories." This realization comes perhaps too late to the husband of Etna Bliss-a man whose obsession with his young wife begins at the moment of their first meeting, as he helps Etna and her companions escape from a fire in a hotel restaurant, and culminates in a marriage doomed by secrets and betrayal. Written with the intelligence and grace that are the hallmarks of Anita Shreve's bestselling novels, this gripping tale of desire, jealousy, and loss is peopled by unforgettable characters as real as the emotions that bring them together.
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- Bookseller
- Ariadne Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1302904
- Title
- All He Ever Wanted
- Author
- Shreve, Anita
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316861146
- ISBN 13
- 9780316861144
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Modern Fiction,Anita Shreve
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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