All he ever wanted

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• 'All He Ever Wanted' by Anita Shreve

  This was a surprisingly enjoyable book. I say surprising because as much as I have enjoyed Shreve's other novels, Sea Glass and Strange Fits of Passion, I found the opening chapter a little stodgy and wasn't quite sure whether I wanted to continue. B ... (read full critics)

  readingmatters published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010

• Not what she wanted

  All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve 288pp, Little, Brown, £12.99 Nicholas von Tassel, a stolid, middle-class academic employed at the turn of the last century by a small New England college, is frantic to possess Etna Bliss from the moment he first sl ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  All He Ever Wanted

  I found this diary of a doomed marriage set in the early 1900's between a man, who feels that his will should be enough to make something so, and a woman, who enters the marriage fully intending to play the role of the martyr, to be a thoroughly compelling tale.

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• English Books
• Others 310 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0759528233
• ISBN-13: 9780759528239
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Pub date: Apr 15, 2003
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD and Audio Cassette

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