The Last Time They Met
A Novel
Little, Brown and Company · Print & ebook · April 15, 2001
From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of intense passion, drama, and suspense.
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- Who it’s for
- A chance encounter and a later reunion frame a story of passion, drama, and suspense.
- Genres
- Contemporary Romance, Multiple-Timeline Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Published
- Little, Brown and Company, April 15, 2001
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From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of intense passion, drama, and suspense. The Last Time They Met is a singularly ambitious and accomplished work by one of today's most widely celebrated novelists.
Across the Years
A chance encounter and a later reunion frame a story of passion, drama, and suspense.
Come here for
- A love story shaped by passion, drama, and suspense
- A narrative that moves between two meetings, thirty-five years apart
Expect
- A timeline that moves backward from a distant-city meeting
- An intense, sustained narrative about a connection across decades
Where it sits
| Contemporary Romance | 46% |
|---|---|
| Literary Fiction | 34% |
| Multiple-Timeline Fiction | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Contemporary Romance
- Later-Life Romance
- Women's Fiction
- Authors
- Anita Shreve
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- April 15, 2001
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Contemporary Romance