The Pilot's Wife Anita Shreveport 1st Edition DJ Little Brown 1998 HC Oprah's

The Pilot's Wife Anita Shreveport 1st Edition DJ Little Brown 1998 HC Title: The Pilot's Wife Publisher: Little, Brown Publication Date: 1998 First Edition Binding: Hardcover Pages: 239 Very Good preowned condition. Pages crisp and clean, no writing, tears or missing pages. Almost looks like new. No dog-eared corners. Spine tight Please see all photos for condition details. Colors may vary depending on your viewing device. Smoke and pet free home. We ship same day. Synopsis: Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.' As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless scrutiny of her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal myst