- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Harpercollins (Aug 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060162490
- ISBN-13: 978-0060162498
- ASIN: 006016249X
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 15.5 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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Kate is a successful interior designer approaching 50 when she receives an invitation to a reunion with her three college room-mates in North Carolina. It seems the time is right for taking stock of her life and reassessing the promises she made to herself during her passionate college years.
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On the Outer Banks of North Carolina there is a legend about the ships that have come to grief in the great autumn storms off those hungry shoals. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This, to my mind, is the best of Anne Rivers Siddons books - that I have read so far, at least.The author does this so well,exploring the friendship that can grow between women. She introduces us to four women, of whom the narrator, Kate, is the catalyst for the changes in all their lives. Kate, the daughter of pretentious parents, desperately trying to hide her background. Cecie,really an aristocrat, dirt-poor, with a delightful wit and charm, a truly good person. Ginger, nouveau-riche, kind, fun, happy, convinced she can never be like elegant Kate. The awful Fig, ugly, brilliant, and totally unlovable. They all come together in the late 60's, at college. Here Kate meets the man she thinks is the love of her life, gifted Paul. Well, life never does work out the way you think it will, and Kate is desperately hurt by the end of her college days. She loses touch with the others, and it is thirty years later that she accepts to meet them all again. It is only then that she discovers how life has dealt with the other women, and that maybe some changes, on the surface seemingly good, are not, in fact, so.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
I love the way Siddons' characters twist at the end of the stories. This one was especially great, the way the main character freed herself from years of baggage by confronting what she thought was real, only to find one (exlover) was two dimensional, and one (Fig) four dimensional.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I loved this book and could not put it down. I became very involved with the characters and enjoyed Siddons' descriptions of their relationships. Although I didn't like the ending, I loved this book as a whole
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Very disappointed in the ending.
I am a big fan of Anne Rivers Siddons. "Fault Lines" is one of my all time favorite books, the one that got me hooked on her. Read more
Published on 28 July 1999
Why did anyone do anything?
Kate apparently couldn't make up her mind. About whom to love, whom to befriend, whom to trust, whom to screw. Read more
Published on 23 July 1999
Gimme a Break
How can the publisher call Kate and Fig friends? Kate was mean to Fig. She did not behave in a friendly manner at all. I think Kate was a stuck-up wench and a spoiled brat. Read more
Published on 9 May 1999
Started well, ended poorly
The beginning was captivating and engrossing. Unfortunately, it soon turned into Psycho Sorority Queen on a Rampage. Read more
Published on 28 Jan 1999
This is Siddons very best!
I have read all of Siddons books, and Outer Banks is still my favorite, by far. I couldn't put it down and was thrilled to encounter the twisted, yet exciting, ending. Read more
Published on 29 Sep 1998
had me going until the end
Siddons does a good job of character development and I got into the book. Living near the Outer Banks, being a member of a sorority, and knowing what small town southern life is... Read more
Published on 17 Sep 1998
A beautiful description of adult life and mid-life crisis
I thoroughly enjoyed Outer Banks. Ms. Siddons transported me into someone else's life for a couple of weeks. Read more
Published on 28 April 1998
Great book - many personal parallels for everyone.
This was a good book -- easy to read (I read it in a day). The unique thing about it is that throughout the plot, personal parallels can be found. Read more
Published on 20 Aug 1996
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