Sea glass : a novel

Title
Sea glass : a novel

Personal Author EPSB
Anita. Shreve

Summary
Twenty-year-old Honora Beecher, married to Sexton in 1929 after a three-month courtship, comes to realize that her husband is not trustworthy and finds herself increasingly drawn to McDermott, a principled loom fixer at a nearby mill where Sexton has been forced to take employment after losing his job due to the stock market crash.

Year Published
2002-2003
 
2002

Physical Description
378 p.

Edition
1stBack Bay paperback edition, January 2003

Note
Includes Reading Group Questions and Topics for Disucussion.

Subject
Great Depression, 1929-1939 -- Fiction.
 
Labor movement -- Fiction.
 
Historical fiction.
 
Domestic fiction.

Geographic Term
New Hampshire -- Fiction.

Genre
Historical fiction.
 
Domestic fiction.

Summary
Twenty-year-old Honora Beecher, married to Sexton in 1929 after a three-month courtship, comes to realize that her husband is not trustworthy and finds herself increasingly drawn to McDermott, a principled loom fixer at a nearby mill where Sexton has been forced to take employment after losing his job due to the stock market crash.

ISBN
9780316089692

Publisher
Boston [Mass.] : Little, Brown, 2003, c2002.


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