Body Surfing, Anita Shreve
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Body Surfing
A Novel

Author: Anita Shreve

Narrator: Lolita Davidovich

Unabridged: 7 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/24/2007


Synopsis

At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once 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 oceanfront New Hampshire cottage.

But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in 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 métier (Miami Herald), Shreve weaves a novel about marriage, family, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.

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

AudiobooksNow review by Danielle on 2008-08-08 13:39:07

Good book, fast read, alittle choppy in places but definitely held my attention. MUCH better than a wedding in december which was quite boring and could not finish.