'A Change in Altitude' by Anita Shreve
Mon, 05/31/2010 - 19:44 — Anonymous
Fiction - paperback; Abacus; 365 pages; 2010.
Anita Shreve is one of my guilty pleasures. Sadly, she seems to get pigeon-holed into "popular fiction" rather than "literary fiction" which means she rarely garners critical acclaim, and yet I find her body of work -- 15 novels at last count -- immensely impressive. Shreve...
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