The Last Time They Met Booktrack Edi..., Anita Shreve
The Last Time They Met Booktrack Edi..., Anita Shreve
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The Last Time They Met: Booktrack Edition

Author: Anita Shreve

Narrator: Lainie Cooke

Unabridged: 10 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/09/2018


Synopsis

The Last Time They Met: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
A dazzling story about marriage, forgiveness, and chances not taken, by the bestselling author of Body Surfing and A Wedding in December.

At a literary festival a poet named Linda Fallon meets for the first time in years a fellow poet, Thomas Janes, whose fame has grown during a decade of seclusion.

This is no chance meeting. Thomas saw that Linda was scheduled to appear, and chose this moment to re-establish contact with a woman he had passionately pursued years earlier. Their affair was disastrous for them both, a turning point in their lives, and the damage they did in those years still haunts them both.

THE LAST TIME THEY MET moves backward in time from Linda at age 52 to explore her life years earlier, at age 26, and still earlier, at 17. Anita Shreve examines the extraordinary resonance a single choice, even a single word, can have over the course of a lifetime.
*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.

Author Bio

Anita Shreve was a high school teacher and a freelance magazine journalist before writing fiction full time. She was the author of over fifteen novels as well as the international bestseller The Pilot’s Wife, and The Weight of the Water, a finalist for the Orange Prize. Shreve taught writing at Amherst College and lived in Massachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jenny on May 29, 2008

Fuck this book. First of all, it's broken into three sections- the characters at 52, 28 and 17. It goes backwards, which might work in some stories, but it's utterly annoying here. You end up not knowing the characters at all. Plus, it was like a wanna be Out of Africa. I'm so annoyed with this book.......more

Goodreads review by Denise on November 24, 2010

I see a lot of people did not like this book. I understand why, but there are certainly parts or rather a sentence that I HATED but I loved this book. I read it a few years ago and it still haunts me. I would recommend reading it with a friend or group, because you WILL want to discuss this with som......more

Goodreads review by Meaghan on July 14, 2008

Anything Anita Shreve [Anita Shreve] has ever written has moved me. I am thrown into the storyline because of her writing skills. No other writer has ever been able to make me see what is being written. I can picture each character, house, town, etc as though there are photos on the side. There's j......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on March 14, 2013

Definitely contains spoilers this review so beware. I loved this novel. I saw Anita speak at a bookshop in Paris and was curious enough to read this, my first Shreve. I then went on to read everything she had written but nothing moved me like this one. I finished this novel in a sushi restaurant in......more

Goodreads review by Diane on July 21, 2008

I loved the altered time line in this book and admire the skill that went into pulling it off. Plus, the story of these two lovers engaged me right away. A funny thing about Shreve's ratings on goodreads: I seem to love the books that are rated lowest and vice versa (I never made it through Resistan......more