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A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He approaches her and sets in motion a series of events that will change his life forever. Years later, travelling from New England to Florida by train, he reflects back on his obsession with this unknown and ultimately unknowable woman - his courtship of her, his marriage to her, and the unforgivable act that ripped their family apart. Spanning three decades from 1899 to 1933, All He Ever Wanted gives us a tale of marriage, betrayal and the search for redemption. It has the unmatched attention to details of character, place and emotion that have made Anita Shreve one of the world's best-loved and bestselling novelists.

Honora et Sexton Beecher se sont mariés sans vraiment se connaître. Sexton décide d'acquérir la maison qu'ils louent, mentant sur ses revenus pour l'acheter. Mais la crise de 1929 lui fai

Nicky Dillon is 12 years old, and it has been two years since her mother and little sister were killed in an automobile accident. Now she lives with her grieving father, Robert, and when, one winter day, they find an abandoned newborn baby in the snowy woods, old wounds are opened--and new ones are suffered as well. As the police gradually establish the baby's parentage, young Nicky gains some insight into her father, and into her rapidly maturing self. The story is told by Nicky as an adult, many years later.

'I watched my father run forward in his snowshoes the way one sometimes does in dreams, unable to make the legs move fast enough. I ran to the place where he knelt. I looked down into the sleeping bag. A tiny face gazed up at me, the eyes wide despite their many folds. The baby was wrapped in a bloody towel, and its lips were blue.' The events of a December afternoon on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow will forever alter eleven-year-old Nicky Dillon's understanding of the world which she is about to enter and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put behind him an unthinkable tragedy; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made; and a detective whose cleverness is superseded only by his sense of justice. Written from the point of view of thirty-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid images of that fateful December, hers is a tale of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself.

Mientras caminan por el bosque nevado cerca de su casa, Robert Dillon y su hija de doce años, Nicky tropiezan con algo que les deja perplejos. Allí, en medio de la nieve, encuentran un bebé abandonado. Si la casualidad no hubiese querido que toparan con el, habria muerto. En los dias y semanas siguientes, Nicky vislumbra aspectos del mundo de los adultos que no habia imaginado, y de repente afloran muchas preguntas acerca de su peculiar forma de vida.Una apasionante novela sobre los secretos que preservamos y los que desenterramos.

When an English biographer, Mr Moxom, sets out to write a story on the Rose Street Massacre of 1933, he interviews elderly Honora Beecher, one of the few remaining survivors 50 years later. He wants to know everything and sets out to get Honora's and her late husband's life story to tell the tale.

A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He approaches her and sets in motion a series of events that will change his life forever. Years later, travelling from New England to Florida by train, he reflects back on his obsession with this unknown and ultimately unknowable woman - his courtship of her, his marriage to her, and the unforgivable act that ripped their family apart. Spanning three decades from 1899 to 1933,All He Ever Wanted gives us a tale of marriage, betrayal and the search for redemption. It has the unmatched attention to details of character, place and emotion that have made Anita Shreve one of the world's best-loved and bestselling novelists.

In a summer community on the coast of New Hampshire at the turn of the last century, a girl is drawn into a passionate affair with a man nearly three times her age. "Fortune's Rocks" is the story of Olympia Biddeford, privileged, well-educated, and mature beyond her years, and her affair with John Haskell, who not only is a physician, essayist, and champion of mill workers but also a married man with children. Drawn inexorably together on the night of the summer solstice, the pair set in motion a series of events with far-reaching consequences for all involved.

In 1929 New England, Sexton and Honora Beecher arrange to buy the house they are renting, but when the Depression strikes their small town their hopes are dashed. Sexton goes to work at the mill and becomes involved with the plan to form a union--and events conspire to undermine the Beechers' marriage as well as their financial picture. This is the third volume in Anita Shreve's informal trilogy of novels that take place in a house on the coast of New Hampshire.