Have added you to this bookring...thanks! Rebecca James wrote: > > I would like to join this bookray please. I can ship within the US. > > Thank you, > Rebecca > rebeccaljames > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Teresa S. > To: [email protected] <mailto:BookCrossing%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:36 AM > Subject: [SPAM] [BookCrossing] Int'l Bookring: The Pilot's Wife > > Post here and PM with your shipping preferences... > > Oprah Book Club® Selection, March 1999: 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. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
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