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| Original Title: | The Weight of Water |
| ISBN: | 0316780375 (ISBN13: 9780316780377) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Isles of Shoals, Maine(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (1998), Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award (1998) |
Anita Shreve
Paperback | Pages: 246 pages Rating: 3.64 | 25666 Users | 1741 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Weight of Water |
| Author | : | Anita Shreve |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 246 pages |
| Published | : | January 7th 1998 by Back Bay Books (first published 1997) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery |
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Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereA newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational ax murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. (Can you guess which one?) She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean's private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters. A rich, textured novel.
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This book may be best summed up as a summer read, chick lit guiltily knotted into historical fiction. Anita Shreve binds together the gristly 19th c. murders at Smuttynose, a small island off the coast of New Hampshire, with the slow keening of a contemporary marriage. As a child I grew up sailing and anchoring off the Isles of Shoals, listening to tales of the pirate Bluebeard, treasure and murder; swimming in the deep black waters; and exploring Smuttynose and the Haley house (of which I'm aWow. The story had me from the first line to the very last one. Awesome and crushing in the telling.
Very dark and shocking in many ways, but beautifully written. I loved the way Shreve wove the two stories together. I did not foresee the ending at all. Kept me turning pages up to the end.
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve was a library book sale find for me. The story surrounds a journalist/photographer, who is on a small boat, with her husband, young child, brother-in-law and his girlfriend. The trip is to visit an island off the coast of Maine where a horrible domestic crime had occurred years before, get some pictures and do some research. It sounds simple enough.As Jean, the journalists, research into the ill-fated family are appearing in her own family, trapped as they are
Maybe it is just me but I had a difficult time with this book on an ethical basis. Two stories within a story. One in current time the other based on an actual event that occurred in 1873 on Smuttynose Island. Shreve offers the reader her own alternate theory of what happened in 1873 through one of her fictional characters removing a ficitional diary of the sole survivor (real person)from the archive of a library. We, the reader, learn the truth about the murders through this discovered diary.
A true watery dirge. Harrowing and ultimately haunting.
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