by Anita Shreve · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422655374
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«Extraños arrebatos de amor y de ira» is the novel by Anita Shreve, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (314 pages, in Spanish).
Maureen English flees with her daughter from an abusive husband and settles in St. Hilaire, a town in Maine, where she adopts the name Mary Amesbury and tries to start over. The help of some neighbours will not prevent her past from catching up with her; the novel explores guilt, complicity and the destructive spiral of domestic violence.
Published in 1995, translated by Silvia Komet; the original title is 'Strange Fits of Passion'.
For readers of contemporary fiction and drama interested in stories about relationships and domestic violence.
Anita Hale Shreve was an American writer, chiefly known for her novels. One of her first published stories, Past the Island, Drifting, was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1976.
