The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve audiobook

The Last Time They Met: Booktrack Edition

By Anita Shreve
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Hachette Audio 9780316781145
5.50 Hours Abridged
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    ISBN: 9781594834226

A dazzling story about marriage, forgiveness, and chances not taken, by the bestselling author of Body Surfing and A Wedding in December. At a literary festival a poet named Linda Fallon meets for the first time in years a fellow poet, Thomas Janes, whose fame has grown during a decade of seclusion. This is no chance meeting. Thomas saw that Linda was scheduled to appear, and chose this moment to re-establish contact with a woman he had passionately pursued years earlier. Their affair was disastrous for them both, a turning point in their lives, and the damage they did in those years still haunts them both. THE LAST TIME THEY MET moves backward in time from Linda at age 52 to explore her life years earlier, at age 26, and still earlier, at 17. Anita Shreve examines the extraordinary resonance a single choice, even a single word, can have over the course of a lifetime.

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Summary

Summary

A New York Times bestseller

A USA Today bestseller

A dazzling story about marriage, forgiveness, and chances not taken, by the bestselling author of Body Surfing and A Wedding in December.


At a literary festival a poet named Linda Fallon meets for the first time in years a fellow poet, Thomas Janes, whose fame has grown during a decade of seclusion.

This is no chance meeting. Thomas saw that Linda was scheduled to appear, and chose this moment to re-establish contact with a woman he had passionately pursued years earlier. Their affair was disastrous for them both, a turning point in their lives, and the damage they did in those years still haunts them both.

THE LAST TIME THEY MET moves backward in time from Linda at age 52 to explore her life years earlier, at age 26, and still earlier, at 17. Anita Shreve examines the extraordinary resonance a single choice, even a single word, can have over the course of a lifetime.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“A flat-out, can’t-put-it-down page-turner…A riveting story that teases and confounds.”   Chicago Tribune
“A poignant novel…So astonishingly well constructed that when you’re finished you’ll want to reread it all at once.”  People
“Compelling…Shreve can render her character’s dark interiors with a tenderness void of judgement, thereby capturing the essential frailty of the human condition…Riveting.”  Boston Globe
“A fluid weave of past and present, subtly mounting suspense, an unabashed insistence on the primacy of love.”  Newsday
“Shreve…meticulously interweaves past and present with total credibility. Her fluid narrative perfectly mirrors her protagonists’ evolving temperaments and viewpoints, while her overall restraint serves to intensify the novel’s devastating conclusion.”  Publishers Weekly
The Last Time They Met is yet another example of the kind of book Shreve does best—one that’s as skillfully plotted as a thriller, but with writing that lingers long after the last plot twist is unfurled. No matter whether people actually have affairs like these. Reading this book only makes you wish that they did.”  Amazon.com, editorial review
“A worthy, readable novel that reaches its conclusion all in good time.”  Booklist
“The tragic relationship of these two connected souls will stick with you for days. Oprah-pick Shreve does it again with this achingly emotional novel. Stock up.”  Library Journal

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Author Bio: Anita Shreve

Author Bio: Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve is the acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels, including Rescue; A Change in Altitude; Testimony; The Pilot’s Wife, which was a selection of Oprah’s Book Club; and The Weight of Water, which was a finalist for England’s Orange Prize.

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Available Formats : Digital Download
Runtime: 5.50
Audience: Adult
Language: English