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Title	:	Sea Glass (Fortune's Rocks #2)
Author	:	Anita Shreve
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 374 pages
Published	:	December 1st 2006 by Little Brown and Company (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit

Sea Glass (Fortune's Rocks #2)

Anita Shreve

Paperback | Pages: 374 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 23932 Users | 1419 Reviews

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In the textile-manufacturing region of New Hampshire in 1929, newlyweds Honora and Sexton Beecher wrestle with all the wonders and challenges that young couples have always faced. They've just purchased a house near the ocean that needs a lot of work, but the couple is dedicated to making it a home. When the economy fails and a single unscrupulous act perpetrated by Sexton is revealed, more than love will be required to keep the marriage from collapsing under the weight of this betrayal. Sexton -- formerly a traveling salesman -- is forced to take a job at the local mill alongside other men, women, and children whose very survival is being threatened by the harsh burden of their daily toil. Repeated pay cuts and inhumane conditions propel the workers closer to a potentially violent clash with management and union breakers. Alliances are formed, honor is challenged, and character flaws become fatal as the tinderbox explodes, leaving old bonds broken and new ones bolstered.

Momentum builds steadily in this beautifully developed story, unfettered by needless machinations. Shreve deftly weaves the lives of a diverse collection of characters into a tapestry that is rich with the complete range of human emotion and lush with tactile nuance. (Ann Kashickey)

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Original Title:	Sea Glass
ISBN:	0316013838 (ISBN13: 9780316013833)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Fortune's Rocks #2
Characters:	Honora Beecher, Sexton Beecher, Vivian Burton, McDermott, Alphonse
Setting:	New Hampshire(United States)

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As with "The Pilot's Wife" by Anita Shreve, "Sea Glass" really resonated with me since I grew up on the coast of Maine and experienced so much of what the protagonist, Honora, experiences. "Sea Glass" takes place in a New Hampshire beach town and actually travels to places familiar to me in Maine - particularly Sanford where I was born and spent my early years! Like Honora, I've walked the beaches and searched for sea glass. "Sea Glass" takes place in the late 1920s/early 1930s so the characters

As usual this is one of those books by Shreve that you will like if you are a fan of hers but may not rate quite so high if not. The characters and the plot develop well but then there is sort of an abrupt finish. Would like to have seen a bit more of what happened in the next year or so. This is a set of story plots woven into a book that deals with the stock market crash and the textile strikes of the late 1920's. Shreve fans will be comfortable with the locale of Fortune's Rocks and Ely Falls

This is the 2nd Shreve book I finished in the last couple of weeks. I really enjoyed reading it, though not quite as much as Light on Snow. The structure of the book -- alternating between the viewpoints of the different characters -- made it take a little while to really get into it and feel invested in the characters, but once they started intersecting, I couldn't put it down. And the structure provided some great symbolism -- little threads weaving in and out of others' lives, sometimes only

3.5 starsSexton, a fast-talking typewriter salesman, and Honora married after knowing each other for a short time. The newlyweds moved into a large neglected house along the New Hampshire shore in 1929. After the stock market crash, Honora found out her husband was not totally honest in obtaining a loan for the house. Sexton lost his job and his car, and could only find a new job at the mill.The working conditions at the mill were terrible, and the mill owners decided to reduce the meager wages

I loved this book, and the ending would have had me bawling like a baby had I not been on a train ride surrounded by strangers. From the moment we meet Honora (on-NOR-a), to her marriage to the creepy Sexton, to her walks on the oceanfront looking for sea glass, meeting her vibrant and very wealthy neighbor Vivian, and then came the millworkers labor strike of 1929 just when everything else in the world (stock market crash) went to hell. Honora and Sexton are paying a mortgage on a house (which

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant gave me this book when she saw me reading another Shreve novel and said this was the author's best work yet. She was right! Some Anita Shreve novels grab you from the start and don't let you go, while others are nearly impossible to get into. Sea Glass is the former. The plot and the characters are captivating, and the book provides a great history lesson on the early years of the labor movement in New England. I must say, I didn't know much about that topic

I didn't expect terribly much from this book, but I felt the need to read it because, well, someone gave me a copy and it's party about the labor movement during the Depression in a textile mill town. So I had no choice.I wish it were a better book. It's nice summer reading, if you're not part of the "I only read happy books" crowd. It's not a happy book. But it never reaches tragedy, because, well, Shreve just can't get it there. She relies too much on archetypes to develop true characters for