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"From its opening car crash, 'Rescue' is worth the ride....No one can create the beginning of a complex relationship like Shreve....Shreve gets deep inside these characters, and her insights draw us into their lives.... A story of hope and fear, of promises made and broken.... Shreve creates a little world, peoples it with believable characters, and puts them through agonizing and joyful moments without a false note or a dissonant figure of speech." (Washington Post Brigitte Weeks )
"A paramedic and the troubled young beauty he saves propel Shreve's engrossing latest...With the insistent thrum of life-and-death EMT calls as background, Shreve's vividly told tale captures the deep-seated fears of mortality and loneliness that can drive us to test the bounds of family and forgiveness." (People Joanna Powell )
"Rescue is Shreve at her best....Shreve knows love may be intense, life-changing and passionate, but it is never enough. Her characters bruise each other as much as they comfort each other...."Rescue" is full of themes Shreve loves: How a moment can change a life; loss and love; forgiveness and pain." (Associated Press Mary Foster )
"Compelling.... Fans of Anita Shreve will likely devour this new novel." (Entertainment Weekly Sara Vilkomerson )
"A thoroughly absorbing, perfectly paced domestic drama. Alternating between life-and-death scenarios Pete encounters on the job and the fraught family tension between father and daughter, Shreve pulls readers right into her story." (Booklist Joanne Wilkinson )
"A paramedic and the troubled young beauty he saves propel Shreve's engrossing latest...With the insistent thrum of life-and-death EMT calls as background, Shreve's vividly told tale captures the deep-seated fears of mortality and loneliness that can drive us to test the bounds of family and forgiveness." (People Joanna Powell )
"Rescue is Shreve at her best....Shreve knows love may be intense, life-changing and passionate, but it is never enough. Her characters bruise each other as much as they comfort each other...."Rescue" is full of themes Shreve loves: How a moment can change a life; loss and love; forgiveness and pain." (Associated Press Mary Foster )
"Compelling.... Fans of Anita Shreve will likely devour this new novel." (Entertainment Weekly Sara Vilkomerson )
"A thoroughly absorbing, perfectly paced domestic drama. Alternating between life-and-death scenarios Pete encounters on the job and the fraught family tension between father and daughter, Shreve pulls readers right into her story." (Booklist Joanne Wilkinson )
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A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila Arsenault is a gorgeous enigma--streetwise and tough-talking, with haunted eyes, fierce desires, and a never-look-back determination. Peter Webster, as straight an arrow as they come, falls for her instantly and entirely. Soon Sheila and Peter are embroiled in an intense love affair, married, and parents to a baby daughter. Like the crash that brought them together, it all happened so fast.
Can you ever really save another person? Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off track, and for the first time in their ordered existence together, Webster fears for her future. His work shows him daily every danger the world contains, how wrong everything can go in a second. All the love a father can give a daughter is suddenly not enough.
Sheila's sudden return may be a godsend--or it may be exactly the wrong moment for a lifetime of questions and anger and longing to surface anew. What tore a young family apart? Is there even worse damage ahead? The questions lifted up in Anita Shreve's utterly enthralling new novel are deep and lasting, and this is a novel that could only have been written by a master of the human heart.
Can you ever really save another person? Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off track, and for the first time in their ordered existence together, Webster fears for her future. His work shows him daily every danger the world contains, how wrong everything can go in a second. All the love a father can give a daughter is suddenly not enough.
Sheila's sudden return may be a godsend--or it may be exactly the wrong moment for a lifetime of questions and anger and longing to surface anew. What tore a young family apart? Is there even worse damage ahead? The questions lifted up in Anita Shreve's utterly enthralling new novel are deep and lasting, and this is a novel that could only have been written by a master of the human heart.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
What a waste,
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This review is from: Rescue: A Novel (Paperback)
(...) I read it. And I kept waiting just like at the cinema when watching 'The Adjustment Bureau ' that proved to be no 'Inception'. I can say in earnest that all those famous people and journals praising the book have not read it. It feels like the author was on a deadline, had to deliver something and scoured for parts. I would not be impressed by it even if I were sixteen and tried to find myself in one of the characters. There is no substance, the dialogue is lame, situations highly predictable and the whole thing could have been written in twenty pages to avoid the constant drag. Now looking at the cover I get even more annoyed as it has nothing to do with the book, the two women photographed could be passing for the mother and daughter, except that they are plain, regular faces, as opposed to the extremely sexy, breathtaking, 'oh my God I can't believe my luck' depicted Sheila and Rowan. Laudable that a guy with a certificate in business decides to become an EMT instead, then get married to keep a child, then raise the child by himself and chase away the alcoholic mother who did not love him, but really? (...) this book is a casual easy read that stands mainly on Anita's reputation.For more interesting genuine reviews go to allwords.ca.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Just not worth the read,
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This review is from: Rescue: A Novel (Hardcover)
I guess I am not being too fair to Ms. Shreve, as I am comparing most of her novels to the first novel I ever read by her - RESISTANCE. That was a novel worth telling friends about, worth reading more than once, worth thinking - this would be a fantastic movie. Reading RESCUE - just p*ssed me off. The character of Sheila - just could not stand her from the first word out of her mouth, could not understand for the life of me - why Peter Webster would fall for her - he seemed way smarter than to fall for a woman with no redeeming values in her. Anyway - long story short - hated this book. For anyone who has not read Resistance - pick it up - you won't be disappointed.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Ok Read,
This review is from: Rescue: A Novel (Paperback)
I have read several Anita Shreve books. This was defintely not my favorite. I would give it a middle of the road rating because while I didn't find it great it was still an enjoyable read. I read it in a day, it was just one of those books that you could get through without paying much attention which is not typical of other Anita Shreve books that I have read(Fortune Rocks, Pilot's Wife, Sea Glass).
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