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"A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel."

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About Anita Shreve

American novelist and journalist whose bestselling fiction often explored marriage, loss, and moral conflict. She is widely known for The Pilot's Wife and other contemporary literary works.

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