- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown; Export ed edition (7 April 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1408700743
- ISBN-13: 978-1408700747
- Product Dimensions: 15.4 x 2.7 x 23.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 115,032 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A perfectly pitched account of human fallibility and the snares of temptation. --The Daily Mail on Testimony
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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Rescue
Anita Shreve's long awaited new novel doesn't disappoint, in fact you fall straight into the drama around the main character who is a paramedic. It seemed to me to be a novel of missed opportunities. Long dreamed of goals having to be shelved because of a chance meeting, albeit dramatic, with someone you fall in love with. What else is there to do but take that turn in your life and see what happens? When Webster and Sheila have a child, Webster knows that his dreams must be shelved and pours himself into his new little family. Alcoholism bangs on the door and demands admission to unravel their new life. It's sad but you expect that but it's brilliant and compelling and a must read.
Anita Shreve's long awaited new novel doesn't disappoint, in fact you fall straight into the drama around the main character who is a paramedic. It seemed to me to be a novel of missed opportunities. Long dreamed of goals having to be shelved because of a chance meeting, albeit dramatic, with someone you fall in love with. What else is there to do but take that turn in your life and see what happens? When Webster and Sheila have a child, Webster knows that his dreams must be shelved and pours himself into his new little family. Alcoholism bangs on the door and demands admission to unravel their new life. It's sad but you expect that but it's brilliant and compelling and a must read.
88 of 93 people found the following review helpful
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I love Anita Shreve`s writing and I have become so engrossed with some of her books,I simply cannot put them down and I feel like the characters are real. Body Surfing, The Pilot`s Wife and Light on Snow are three of my favourites and so it was with huge anticipation that I purchased her latest book, Rescue, for my Kindle.
I was disappointed, the story is rather shallow, the characters` lives are not really explored or developed out in great depth so I wasn`t really all that interested in why it was that one man fell for one woman following a car crash since she wasn`t an especially pleasant woman anyway! I would have liked to understand much more about why the love affair blossomed, I would have liked to know why the woman had developed her problems with alchohol. When I finished the book I didn`t really know if the characters would in any sense be a family once more, I was just left with a sort of, "and?"
I hope that Anita Shreve hasn`t run out of ideas. This book seemed formulaic to me and too short for the price. Picky I know, but it isn`t a big novel and in my view, not one which is up to the author`s usual excellent standards.
I was disappointed, the story is rather shallow, the characters` lives are not really explored or developed out in great depth so I wasn`t really all that interested in why it was that one man fell for one woman following a car crash since she wasn`t an especially pleasant woman anyway! I would have liked to understand much more about why the love affair blossomed, I would have liked to know why the woman had developed her problems with alchohol. When I finished the book I didn`t really know if the characters would in any sense be a family once more, I was just left with a sort of, "and?"
I hope that Anita Shreve hasn`t run out of ideas. This book seemed formulaic to me and too short for the price. Picky I know, but it isn`t a big novel and in my view, not one which is up to the author`s usual excellent standards.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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I feel as if I have been enjoying Anita Shreve forever. It all started with `The Pilots Wife', which was certainly excitingly innovative and appealing at the time. Very much a recommended author amongst friends.
Now I am surfacing from the world of `Rescue' and I wonder if it is just being too used to the plot devices or maybe my mood but this one came across as a bit of a grind. The interesting hook, that `Webster', who is known only by his surname; works as a Paramedic, did add a frisson of thrill and education to the story. Setting the scene in the electric atmosphere of first on the scene medical drama worked until the inevitable cliché ridden showdown, which seemed almost lazy writing.
Teenage daughter Rowan was well written, her behaviour was pitch perfect for the emerging from her chrysalis stage in life.
I just didn't get sucked in as I would have hoped; there are characters you can take to, in my case the older parents faced with the challenge of an unlikely daughter in law and unexpected upheavals. Webster's co-workers came to life a little but it all felt a bit flat and not as effective as others I have read by Anita Shreve.
Perhaps that was because this contains and addresses quite a dispiriting subject. There is a heavy-hearted undercurrent of quiet despair. The reader is `rescued' neatly by the finale. Good but not great reading.
Now I am surfacing from the world of `Rescue' and I wonder if it is just being too used to the plot devices or maybe my mood but this one came across as a bit of a grind. The interesting hook, that `Webster', who is known only by his surname; works as a Paramedic, did add a frisson of thrill and education to the story. Setting the scene in the electric atmosphere of first on the scene medical drama worked until the inevitable cliché ridden showdown, which seemed almost lazy writing.
Teenage daughter Rowan was well written, her behaviour was pitch perfect for the emerging from her chrysalis stage in life.
I just didn't get sucked in as I would have hoped; there are characters you can take to, in my case the older parents faced with the challenge of an unlikely daughter in law and unexpected upheavals. Webster's co-workers came to life a little but it all felt a bit flat and not as effective as others I have read by Anita Shreve.
Perhaps that was because this contains and addresses quite a dispiriting subject. There is a heavy-hearted undercurrent of quiet despair. The reader is `rescued' neatly by the finale. Good but not great reading.
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I enjoyed it
I enjoyed 'Rescue' and thought the characters were well drawn. I cared about Webster, the central character, and that, for me, is the test of a good book. Read more
Published 6 days ago by Rosie
A great read
Anita Shreve never disappoints. Written in a sympathetic style, it is easy to be carried on the journey with the characters and get lost in the story.
Published 15 days ago by SaraGL
Read better....
A little while since I read one by Anita and to start with I thought it was a bit slow but it picked up and I enjoyed it enough to finish. Read more
Published 1 month ago by DE Will
could have been so much more
I normally love Anita Shreve's work but threw this book on the floor with disgust at the ending of this book! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Laurel Champion
Good Story
This was a Kindle edition, an enjoyable (shortish) Anita Shreve story. I have read a couple of her books and like her style. Well worth the read i say.
Published 3 months ago by Oli23
a disappointing read
I have read every one of Anita Shreve's books, eagerly awaiting each new one. Usually they are gripping from the start and draw you in to such an extent you can't stop reading... Read more
Published 3 months ago by bookworm
An ordinary story
This is a fairly ordinary story but very well written and easy to read. I thought what would happen at the end did happen so not many surprises but I enjoyed it, though its one of... Read more
Published 9 months ago by misty
Beyond rescuing
I've read all Shreve's books and she has really gone off the boil with this one. It starts well, but like a lot of the protagonist's clients (he is an ER medic) ends up flatlining. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Kim
A good read but a little disappointed
I have read every Anita Shreve book. What originally drew me to her writing was the way in which she could make New England such a spell-binding place. Read more
Published 11 months ago by A. Gaskell
Superbly crafted storytelling
Anita Shreve's latest novel "Rescue" shows you just how much she has developed as a writer since "Eden Close". Read more
Published 11 months ago by Jl Adcock
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