Synopses & Reviews
The author of the
New York Times bestseller
Light on Snow returns with a powerful new novel about old friends, a wedding, and a gathering that will change their lives.
At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts, seven former schoolmates gather for a wedding. Nora, the owner of the inn, has recently had to reinvent her life following the death of her husband. Avery, who still hears echoes from a horrific event at Kidd Academy twenty-six years ago, has made a life for himself in Toronto with his wife and two sons. Agnes, now a history teacher at Kidd, is a still-single woman who longs to tell a secret she cannot reveal to the others, a secret that would stun them all. Bridget, the mother of a 15-year-old boy, has agreed to marry Bill, an old high school lover whom she has recently re-met, despite uncertainties about her health and future.
Indeed, it is Bill who passionately wants this wedding and who has brought everyone together for an astonishing weekend of revelation and recrimination, forgiveness and redemption. This is Anita Shreve's most ambitious and moving novel to date, probing into human motivation with the grace and skill that have made her "one of the finest novelists of her time" (Boston Herald).
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"[A]another crowd-pleaser....Shreve offers some lovely moments of perception about the nature of marriage, the ways we survive tragedy, and the indomitable sturdiness of the human spirit." Providence Journal
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"Shreve's poignant story of lost love and hidden truths is a compelling read. Highly recommended." Library Journal
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"[A]n excellent novel....[Shreve] once again provides engrossing storytelling that conjures laughter and astonishment....A Wedding in December is further proof that Shreve deserves her sterling reputation." Dallas-Ft. Worth Star Telegram
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"Shreve covers old ground...and not in a good way....Her writing is fluid, and the plot points interlock seamlessly, but readers may well feel that they have stayed too long at the party by the time this Wedding is over." USA Today
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"Happily, Shreve's knack for engrossing storytelling mostly makes up for the bourgeois malaise." Chelsea Cain, The New York Times Book Review
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"This novel has many of Shreve's hallmarks: simple and elegant prose; characters who are entirely convincing in their portrayals of human fallibility; and a plot buildup with a twist toward the end that packs a wallop." School Library Journal
Synopsis
Gathering to attend a wedding in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, seven former classmates find the reunion marked by the death of a spouse, a traumatic past event, a shocking secret, and health issues. By the author of Light on Snow. Reprint. 500,000 first printing.
Synopsis
In Shreve's national bestseller, seven former schoolmates gather at an inn in the Berkshires to celebrate a wedding and to recall a long-ago night that marked each of their lives.
Synopsis
At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather to celebrate a wedding--a reunion that becomes the occasion of astonishing revelations as the friends collectively recall a long-ago night that indelibly marked each of their lives. Written with the fluent narrative artistry that distinguishes all of Anita Shreve's bestselling novels, A Wedding in December acutely probes the mysteries of the human heart and the endless allure of paths not taken.
About the Author
Anita Shreve is the author of many acclaimed novels, including The Last Time They Met, The Pilot's Wife, Sea Glass, All He Ever Wanted, and Light on Snow. She lives in Massachusetts.