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"It is a house on the beach. Honora doesn't mind renting - despite its age and all its flaws, the old house is the perfect place for a new marriage. She and Sexton throw themselves into fixing it up, just as they throw themselves into their new life together. Each morning, Honora collects sea glass washed up on the shore, each piece carrying a different story in its muted hues.".
"Sexton finds a way to buy the house, but his timing is perfectly wrong. The economy takes a sickening plunge, and as financial pressures mount, Honora begins to see how little she knows this man she has married - and to realize just how threatening the world outside her front door can be.".
"Like those translucent shards that Honora finds on the beach, Sea Glass is layered with the textures, colors, and voices of another time. There is Vivian, an irreverent Boston socialite who becomes Honora's closest friend even as she rejects every form of convention. McDermott, a man who works in a nearby mill, presses Honora's deepest notions of trust - even as he embroils her in a dangerous dispute.
And there's Alphonse, a boy whose openness becomes the bond that holds these people together as their world is flying apart."--BOOK JACKET.
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Massacres, Married people in fiction, Depressions, Stock Market Crash, 1929, Married people, Stock Market Crash, 1929 in fiction, History, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Labor movement, Depressions in fiction, Massacres in fiction, New Hampshire in fiction, Labor movement in fiction, Fiction, historical, Large type books, Married people, fiction, New hampshire, fiction, Fiction, historical, generalPlaces
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Sea glass
2004, Little, Brown
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- 1st Little, Brown mass market ed.
0316001449 9780316001441
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With all the narrative power and emotional immediacy that have made her novels acclaimed international bestsellers, Anita Shreve unfolds a richly engaging tale of marriage, money, and troubled times-the story of a pair of young newlyweds who, setting out to build a life together in a derelict beach house on the Atlantic coast, soon discover how threatening the world outside their front door can be.
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