A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. Linda and thomas, poets and former lovers, are reunited at a writers conference decades later. I had no idea it had a connection to one of her previous books, the weight of water. A novel and over one million other books are available for amazon kindle. The last time they met is a flatout, cantputitdown pageturner.
The last time they met moves backward to explore lindas life years earlier, at age 26, when an affair with thomas shattered her life, and at age 17, when they first met. The first edition of the novel was published in january 1st 2001, and was written by anita shreve. A novel by anita shreve from the last time linda and thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirtyfive years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of intense passion, drama, and suspense. We meet 52yearold linda fallon checking into a toronto hotel for a literary conference, at which she meets fellow american poet thomas janes, whom she hasnt seen since the disastrous denouement of their adulterous affair in africa 25. Anita shreve is the author of nine other critically acclaimed and bestselling novels, all published in abacus paperback. The main characters of this fiction, romance story are. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. He was free to marry, have a home and children and leave that home to go out. The book tells the story of two teenagers who find themselves as soul mates, yet are separated due to choices that are not their own.
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