| Light on Snow Contributor(s): Shreve, Anita (Author) |
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ISBN: 031600071X ISBN-13: 9780316000710 Publisher: Little Brown and Company OUR PRICE: $26.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: A New York Times Bestseller The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the 11-year-old girl's understanding of the world and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society to forget an unthinkable tragedy behind him; a young woman who must live with the consequences of her terrible choices; and a detective whose cleverness is exceeded only by his sense of justice. Written from the point of view of 30-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid images of that fateful December, her tale is one of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 750 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.56 lbs) 368 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 86144 Reading Level: 4.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 10.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons and an unexpected visitor who soon turns up at their door-a young woman evidently haunted by her own terrible choices-face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak and redemption. Writing with all the emotional resonance that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow a tender and surprising novel about love and its consequences. |