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Description for Light On Snow
Paperback. Well-read paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
'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 ... 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Little, Brown
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780316726665
SKU
KRF0022078
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve is the author of ten other novels including the international bestsellers The Pilot's Wife, a selection of Oprah's Book Club, and The Weight of Water, shortlisted for the Orange Prize.
Reviews for Light On Snow
ALL HE EVER WANTED: 'Anita Shreve's assured, subtle writing makes this more than a typical tale of Victorian marital oppression' TELEGRAPH 'It is fluent and purposeful in its portrayal of the despair and claustrophobia seething beneath an ordered surface' THE TIMES 'As Trollope was in his day, Shreve is prolific, polished, unputdownable. ... Read more