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Description for Light on Snow
Paperback. * The eleventh novel by the critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling Anita Shreve is a story of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption and of the human heart. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 198.
I watched my father run forward in his snowshoes the way one sometimes does in dreams, unable to make the legs move fast enough. I ran to the place where he knelt. I looked down into the sleeping bag. A tiny face gazed up at me, the eyes wide despite their many folds. The baby was wrapped in a bloody towel, and its lips were blue.' The events of a December afternoon on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow will forever alter eleven-year-old Nicky Dillon's understanding of the world which she is about ... Read more
I watched my father run forward in his snowshoes the way one sometimes does in dreams, unable to make the legs move fast enough. I ran to the place where he knelt. I looked down into the sleeping bag. A tiny face gazed up at me, the eyes wide despite their many folds. The baby was wrapped in a bloody towel, and its lips were blue.' The events of a December afternoon on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow will forever alter eleven-year-old Nicky Dillon's understanding of the world which she is about ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349118567
SKU
KLN0016933
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve is the author of eleven critically acclaimed and bestselling novels, all published in Abacus paperback.
Reviews for Light on Snow
This story touches the very deepest human emotions ... Chaucerian in its intense sympathy and its appealing universality ... Shreve's style is fluent and unpretentious, with an irresistible rhythmic and narrative impetus that keeps you up, reading ever faster, all night ... Perceptive, gripping and ultimately exhilarating, this is a very fine book indeed Sue Gaisford, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Anita ... Read more