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The Pilot's Wife Review | The Pilot's Wife | Anita Shreve

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	• The Pilot's Wife Anita Shreve Little, Brown and Company, 2001 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 1004 reviews view larger image
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Quick enjoyable read

This is my first Anita Shreve book and I'm looking forward to reading more. It is quick easy read with draws you deeper and deeper into the story.

Great Book Ruined by the Last Sentence

This book had all the trappings of an excellent summer vacation read. Light enough to not require too much over analyzing, a gripping and suspenseful plot that snagged me from the first page and thought-provoking enough to challenge convention. I was thoroughly sated when the last chapter launched and then the final sentence spoiled it all. It was like someone had pushed me off a cliff. And I even like surprise endings.

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The Pilot's Wife Review

I first read Anita Shreve's Body Surfing, and then just had to order another one of her books. Seeing as how The Pilot's Wife was on Oprah's book club, I figured it would be a good read and was yet again surprised by the twists and turns Shreve builds around in her novels. She is an excellent author and I would recommend this book to anybody!!

With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve now offers a skillfully crafted exploration of the long reach of tragedy in The Pilot's Wife. News of Jack Lyons's fatal crash sends his wife into shock and emotional numbness: "Kathryn wished she could manage a coma. Instead, it seemed that quite the opposite had happened: She felt herself to be inside of a private weather system, one in which she was continuously tossed and buffeted by bits of news and information, sometimes chilled by thoughts of what lay immediately ahead, thawed by the kindness of others ... frequently drenched by memories that seemed to have no regard for circumstance or place, and then subjected to the nearly intolerable heat of reporters, photographers and curious on-lookers. It was a weather system with no logic, she had decided, no pattern, no progression, no form." The situation becomes even more dire when the plane's black box is recovered, pinning responsibility for the crash on Jack. In an attempt to clear his name, Kathryn searches for any and all clues to the hours before the flight. Yet each discovery forces her to realize that she didn't know her husband of 16 years at all. Shreve's complex and highly convincing treatment of Kathryn's dilemma, coupled with intriguing minor characters and an expertly paced plot, makes The Pilot's Wife really take off.

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