The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve

The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve

On a small island off the New Hampshire coast in 1873, two women were brutally murdered by an unknown assailant. A third woman survived the attack, hiding in a sea cave until dawn. More than a century later, a photographer, Jean, comes to the island to shoot a photo-essay about the legendary crime. Immersing herself in accounts of the lives of the fishermen's wives who were its victims, she becomes obsessed with the barrenness of these women's days: the ardor-killing labor, the long stretches of loneliness, the maddening relentless winds that threatened to scour them off the rocky island. How could a marriage survive those privations? Was this misery connected to the killings? Jean's marriage is enduring heavy weather of its own. On the boat she has chartered for this project, she and her husband are falling apart. Their nights are full of drink and terrible silences, and Jean feels jealousy and distrust invading her life and her work. The forces that blasted the island a century earlier come alive inside Jean, bringing her to the verge of actions she never dreamed herself capable of - with no idea whether her choices will destroy all she has ever valued or bring her safely home.

Anita Shreve is the bestselling author of fifteen books, including Testimony, The Pilot's Wife, which was featured on Oprah's Book Club, and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for the Orange Prize in England. She resides in the state of Massachusetts.

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ISBN 13	9780316789974
ISBN 10	0316789976
Title	The Weight of Water
Author	Anita Shreve
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little Brown and Company
Year published	1997-01-01
Number of pages	256
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