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All he ever wanted, Anita Shreve

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All he ever wanted, Anita Shreve

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

All he ever wanted

Oclc number

54448054

Responsibility statement

Anita Shreve

Summary

Etna Bliss her just moved to the New England town where her uncle teaches college when her life is transformed in a single stroke. She is dining in a hotel downtown when a fire forces her to escape to the snowy streets outside. Amid the smoke and chaos of that night she is glimpsed, standing under a streetlight, by a man who was dining in the same room a man who is so overwhelmed by the sight of her that he rebuilds his life around a single goal: to marry Etna Bliss." "That man is Nicholas Van Tassel, and All He Ever Wanted is his account of how two lives changed from that tumultuous night forward. A proud and orderly man, Van Tassel is ill equipped to deal with the ferocity of love. But he is determined to have Etna, no matter what the cost. Riding a train south many years later, he unwinds his memories of the drama that followed and struggles to understand the mystery his life became on that night

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