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On a small island off the New Hampshire coast in 1873, two women were brutally murdered by an unknown assailant. A third woman survived the attack, hiding in a sea cave until dawn. More than a century later, a photographer, Jean, comes to the island to shoot a photo-essay about the legendary crime. Immersing herself in accounts of the lives of the fishermen's wives who were its victims, she becomes obsessed with the barrenness of these women's days: the ardor-killing labor, the long stretches of loneliness, the maddening relentless winds that threatened to scour them off the rocky island. How could a marriage survive those privations? Was this misery connected to the killings? Jean's marriage is enduring heavy weather of its own. On the boat she has chartered for this project, she and her husband are falling apart. Their nights are full of drink and terrible silences, and Jean feels jealousy and distrust invading her life and her work. The forces that blasted the island a century earlier come alive inside Jean, bringing her to the verge of actions she never dreamed herself capable of - with no idea whether her choices will destroy all she has ever valued or bring her safely home.
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- Title The Weight of Water
- Author Anita Shreve
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Little Brown and Company, Boston
- Date 1997-01-01
- ISBN 9780316789974 / 0316789976
- Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.3 x 0.89 in (23.52 x 16.00 x 2.26 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1990's
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: New England
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New Hampshire
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96021326
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 01/01/1997, Page 822
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/1996, Page 1491
- Library Journal, 10/15/1996, Page 0
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 09/15/1996, Page 50
- New York Times, 03/08/1998, Page 28
- Publishers Weekly, 10/14/1996, Page 61
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