Search - Strange Fits of Passion

I highly recommend this book! It is very insightful and moving! A must-read!

Anita Shreve has such a beautiful way with the language, and this is another of her splendid novels, again telling the truth about people and relationships. It is moving and thought-provoking, and brings alive both the characters and the small town in Maine in which they find themselves. Or lose themselves. Sad, and compassionate, and moving.

Another dynamite book by Anita Shreve, it's the story of a couple who appear from the outside to have a stable marriage when the exact opposite is actually true. The woman escapes with her daughter to a small town in Maine and tries to have a fresh start, but her husband continues to pursue her. Excellent book - I highly recommend it.

very disappointing - typical domestic abuse story where woman is protrayed as helpless - where are stories about strong women - why are we always protrayed as weak and helpless??

This is an early Anita Shreve book, and the subject is domestic violence and its tragic consequences. The book is a compilation of observations by different people as told in court and to the writer who wrote a book based on her correspondence with the domestic abuse victim. The reasoning of the abused wife for staying with the abuser is potent and pathetic. I was certain that she would have been drawn to another abuser eventually if she hadn't found this particular one.

not her best work. hard to get into, and slow