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Book Review: 'The Stars Are Fire'


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It’s been said that if there are raised letters on the jacket cover and the pages have a ragged, hand-cut look, the book’s important. Of course, that doesn’t mean it is, but in the case of Anita Shreve’s new novel, The Stars are Fire , her 18th, the signaling design proves correct. Shreve, who came to fame with The Weight of Water and an Oprah selection, The Pilot’s Wife , both made into movies, has crafted in The Stars are Fire a moving, suspenseful, delicately erotic, landscape-harsh tale of
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