Stunning novel of love. They love, seperate and then meet again. Only until the final pages will you understand this beautiful story. I loved it!

Linda Fallon encounters her former lover, Thomas Janes, at a literary festival where both have been invited to give readings from their work. It has been years since their paths crossed, and in that time Thomas has become a kind of literary legend. His renown is enhanced by his elusiveness; for most of the past decade, he has remained in seclusion following a devastating loss.
This is no chance meeting. Thomas learned that Linda was reading at the festival and chose this moment to reestablish contact with a woman he passionately pursued years earlier. Their affair was disastrous, and a turning point in both their lives. Neither the intensity of their relationships nor the damage it did has even been far from his memory.
From the moment they speak, The Last Time They Met unfolds the story of Linda and Thomas in an extraordinary way: it travels back into their past, bypassing layers of memory and interpretation to present their earlier encounters with unshakable immediacy. In Africa, when Linda and Thomas were twenty-seven, and in Massachusetts, when they were in high school, the novel re-creates love at its exhilarating pinnacle—the kind of intense connection that becomes the true north against which all relationships are measured.
Moving backwards through time, The Last Time They Met traces the shocking resonance a single choice, even a single word, can have over the course of a lifetime. At the same time, the novel creates almost unbearable mystery, and mystery that can be understood fully only in the novel’s final pages, in the eyes of a young Linda Fallon and the young man who loves her.

Good read - quite a surprise at the end!

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okay

Tried twice to get into this book, just couldn't get into it. The lead character, Linda. She annoyed me. Not one of Shreve's best....have really enjoyed her other books though.

Beautifully sad book, I would reccomend any fan of real life love stories to read it. Anita Shreve has a writing style that takes you captive from the minute you pick up the book to the last word you read. You live through the characters and the choices they make are just as devistating to you as they are to them.

I really enjoyed this book love story of couple who were involved when they were young, they seperated and met years later at a festival, good story

From the moment they speak,unfolds the story of Linda and Thomas in an extraordinary way;it travels back into their past,bypassing layers of memoryand interpretation topresent their earier encounterswith unshakable immediacy.

some water marks on the dust jacket...none on the book.

A popular novel!

Anita Shreve is an amazing author. I love all of her books, and this is no different.

Linda Fallon encounters her former lover at a literary festival and is not a chance meeting.The story travels back into their past and traces the shocking resonance a single choice or word can have over the course of a lifetime.

Didn't get far into this one. Too depressing.

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