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Title: Eden Close by Anita Shreve ISBN: 0-15-600589-1 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.04 (47 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Extremely Slow Reading
Comment: This book was not very captivating at all...it was extremely slow reading. Half way through the book I wasn't even sure what, exactly, it was about. Plus, the ending became very predictable about two-thirds into the book. I actually skipped about 50 pages just to be finished with the thing. I wouldn't recommend it.
Rating: 4
Summary: In the dark velvet of night....
Comment: the shouting, the gunshots reverberate in Andrew's brain. Out here in the country there are only the two houses. The one in which he lives with his parents and the one where Eden lives with hers. His father grabs his gun and runs to the other house as he and his mother slowly make their way though the darkness.
From that night on the idyllic childhood life Andrew and Eden shared is gone. Eden has been raped, shot and blinded. Her father is dead and the screaming sirens of police and ambulance pierce the night air, forever changing the future that might have been.
Andrew, now divorced, returns to his childhood home to bury his mother and revisits, in his memory, his youth and life before and after that horrific night. He does all this while the shadowy figure of Eden is ever-present in the upstairs window of her house 'seeing' as only blindness can see.
Ms. Shreve writes a sensitive and searching novel. Her prose is a vehicle which transports us to the innermst thoughts and yes, deep into the souls of Andrew and Eden, their mothers and fathers and all those that the darkness of that night engulfed.
For a wonderful story and a journey you won't easily forget, set aside the time to enjoy the first of many splendid novels by this prolific author.
Rating: 5
Summary: A TOO -GOOD- TO- PUT- DOWN Book!!!
Comment: I started this book one night. Read for 30 minutes. Woke up the next morning and didn't stop reading until the very last page!!
Eden Close is a compelling story of Andrew and his beautiful next door neighbor Eden. Andrew, after many years away, returns to his hometown to plan his mothers funeral. Planning to stay only a few days, he is never the less drawn into the memories of a tragedy that occured one hot Summer night seventeen years ago. A gunshot. Piercing screams. A tormented girl.
This story is mesmerizing, compelling, haunting and a story you won't soon forget.
I loved this book!!
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Title: Strange Fits of Passion: A Novel by Anita Shreve ISBN: 015600710X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 11 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Resistance by Anita Shreve ISBN: 0316789844 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Where or When : A Novel by Anita Shreve, Virginia Barber ISBN: 0156006529 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 13 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Weight of Water, The by Anita Shreve ISBN: 0316780375 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 07 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve ISBN: 0316782262 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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