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001 1948649
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008 960422s1997 mau 000 1 eng
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050 00 $aPS3569.H7385$bW43 1997
082 00 $a813/.54$220
100 1 $aShreve, Anita.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84219960
245 14 $aThe weight of water /$cAnita Shreve.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aBoston, MA :$bLittle, Brown and Company,$c1997.
263 $a9701
300 $a246 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aOn 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.
520 8 $aMore 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?
520 8 $aJean'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.
520 8 $aThe 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.
852 00 $bglx$hPS3569.H7385$iW43 1997
852 00 $bbar$hPS3569.H7385$iW43 1997