Anita Shreve Quotes


In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.


Citations

Shreve, Anita. Fortune's Rocks. Little, Brown and Company, 1999.

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  • Born: October 7, 1946
  • Died: March 29, 2018
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer, Novelist

Anita Hale Shreve was an American writer, chiefly known for her novels. One of her first published stories, Past the Island, Drifting (published in 1975), was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1976.