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The
2003 Award
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The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Abacus ISBN 0349113602 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| When Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes meet at a writers' festival in Toronto, it is the first time they have seen each other for twenty-six years. Theirs is a story bound by the irresistible pull of true passion - a love which begins in Massachusetts in the early 1960s, is rekindled in Kenya in the 1970s, and which is about to play out its astonishing final episode… |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Anita Shreve is the author of seven previous novels, Eden Close, Strange Fits of Passion, Where or When, Resistance, The Weight of Water (nominated for the 1999 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), The Pilot's Wife (nominated for the 2000 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), and Fortune's Rocks. She teaches creative writing at Amherst College and divides her time between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, U.S.A. |
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