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Off Season (Paperback)

by Anne Rivers Siddons (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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No one does coastal melodrama like veteran Siddons (Homeplace). Lilly Constable McCall, 53, has led an enviable life—marriage and children with a successful architect, her own success as a sculptor—but husband Cam's death sends her spiraling. She returns to the coastal family cottage in Edgewater, Maine, where she spent her childhood, and where Cam died. There, she recalls the summer of 1962, and the arrival in town of new girl Peaches Davenport, who envies all Lilly has. That includes the attentions of attractive older boy Jon Lowell, who awakens grown-up feelings in Lilly's 11-year-old heart. But it's Lilly's place as the daughter of a Washington, D.C., professor and the sporadically successful painter and activist Elizabeth Constable—that makes Lilly's childhood most attractive to Peaches, and to readers. Jon may have shared her first kiss, and Cam her home and children, but it's the changing relationship between Lilly and the elusive, enigmatic Elizabeth that makes this story fresh. (Aug.)
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'Anne Rivers Siddons's body of work is one of the most impressive in contemporary fiction. And, in her beautifully crafted and dazzling new novel OFF SEASON, Ms. Siddons delivers the goods more powerfully than ever. All her books are terriffic, but this one is the best yet - Pat Conroy 'I've always enjoyed Anne Rivers Siddon's books, but this is her best, maybe the book she was born to write. It's a double love story, narrated by a woman who has loved both early and late. The story of Lilly and Jon is one of the best stories of adolescent love - its fierceness and sweetness - that I've ever read. There's also a beautifully drawn picture of Maine dressed in her summer finery...and a few ghosts. Summer is maybe the best time to read this book; if you've ever vacationed on the Maine coast (or ever wanted to), this book isn't just the next best thing, it's the real thing. Bravura storytelling' - Stephen King
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4.0 out of 5 stars vintage Anne, April 14 2009
By R. Mitchell "Pages and Pages and Pages..." (Ingersoll, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Off Season (Hardcover)
Anne Rivers Siddons has been my best loved author since I first read Fault lines, then Colony many years ago. I wait impatiently for every new book she publishes, and I reread the existing books while I wait. Do I have a favourite? No. Some are better than others, but it's her style that pulls you in and wraps you in the fiber of her locations and her characters. You see and smell and hear and taste what they do. Their pain and joy becomes your own. And Off Season is no different.

If you love to read Anne Rivers Siddons, this book is vintage. It differs from some of her other stories in that it's ethereal, ghostly, and unexplained. She captures the mind crazed with grief perfectly. And we all walk that fine line between sanity and insanity, never knowing which way it will tip. Most of us are just unaware of what a razors' edge that is. But Anne knows, and she describes life beautifully.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Off Season, Jan 21 2009
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Sorry, I did not enjoy this book. I found it boring and just wanted to get on with it. But saying that I did enjoy the ending.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Season for Reconnecting..., Nov 19 2008
This review is from: Off Season (Hardcover)
Off-Season is a beautiful rendering of one family, the connections between its members, and the flawed relationships created by secrets and betrayal.

When Lilly Constable McCall loses her husband, Cam, in an untimely death, she escapes to the family's summer home on the coast of Maine. It is here that all of her memories, both beautiful and painful, descend...

It all washes over her, just as the coastal tides sweep the shores--memories of beautiful family vacations, childhood friendships, first love. And pain. Horrible, searing pain that can only be appeased by allowing the memories, good and bad, to sweep over her so that she can
finally come to grips with the secrets and betrayals of one long ago summer...the last one she spent with her birth family at the coastal house. When she experienced her first love and her first loss.

She remembers everything now. How, after the first pain and loss, followed so quickly by another, her heart decides that it is too much, so she retreats into a hermit-like existence.

Protecting herself from further pain. She turns to a new obsession and becomes an underwater swimmer, escaping each day, wearing her wetsuit and helmet...Until she meets Cameron McCall.

They fall in love, marry, have children...And she thinks she knows everything there is to know about him. They are two peas in a pod...right?

But when he dies and when she escapes again to her summer home, she learns more about him. And about herself.

An enchanting story of love, loss, and renewal, this tale is a beautiful addition to Ms. Siddons' collection of family sagas.

By Laurel-Rain Snow
Author of:
An Accidental Life
Embrace the Whirlwind
Chasing Stardust
Miles to Go
Web of Tyranny


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