Author: SHREVE, ANITA
Title: Body surfing : a novel
Description: New York : Little. Brown and Co. 2007. First Edition. At the age of 29. Sydney has already been once divorced andonce widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again. she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their ocean front New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwards' two grown sons. Ben and Jeff. arrive at the beach house. Sydney finds herself caught upin a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections. the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt for herself is threatened. With the subtle wit. lyrical language. and brilliant insight into the human heart that has led her to be called 'an author at one with her metier' (Miami Herald). Shreveweaves a novel about marriage. family. and the supremecourage that it takes to love. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 295 pages; Description: 295 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Divorced women --Widows --Tutors and tutoring --Fiction. by Anita Shreve.Weight in Kg appr.:

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