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From its opening pages, Anita Shreve's Sea Glass surrounds the reader in the surprisingly rich feeling of the New Hampshire coast in winter. Vividly evoking the life of the coastal community at the beginning of the Great Depression, Sea Glass shifts through the multiple points of view of six... read more
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- Honora Honora
- Alphonse
- Sexton Beecher
- Vivian
- Ross
- Mr. Rowley
- Harold
- Mironson
- Dorothy Trafton
- Dickie Peets
- Mahon
- Jack Hess
- Marie-therese
- Sadie
- Eileen
- Sandy
- Taft
- Dicicie
- Gerald
- Franco
- Miss Burton
- Louis
- Buick
- Arnaud
- Nadeau
- Madame Derocher
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“She is on the other side of something now, removed forever from who she was only yesterday.”
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“It’s trash,” he says. “It’s garbage. Other people’s garbage.” “Really?” she says. “I think it’s kind of beautiful.”
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“The only problem with looking for sea glass,” Sexton says one day when he and Honora are walking along the beach, “is that you never look up. You never see the view. You never see the houses or the ocean because you’re afraid you’ll miss something in the sand.”
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a small stain on a beautifully embroidered tablecloth one wanted to buy, only later to discover, when it was on the table and all the guests were seated around it, that the stain had become a beacon, while the beautiful embroidery lay hidden in everybody’s laps.
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The glass is cloudy, as though a fog were trapped within the weathered shard.
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of trust and hope and modest dreams—was gone. What replaced it was still a marriage, she thinks now, as a play will still be called a play, though the characters and the dialogue and even the tone of the drama may be so radically altered as to be almost
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Honora sets the cardboard suitcase on the slab of granite.
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- Anita Shreve (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0316780812
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0316780812
Page Count: 400
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- Library of Congress: PS3569.H7385 S43
- Dewey: 813.54
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