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Off Season | 
 enlarge | Author: Anne Rivers Siddons
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 207
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.4
ISBN: 0446527874
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446527873
ASIN: 0446527874
Publication Date: August 13, 2008 (New: This Week)
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Product Description
Acclaimed novelist Anne Rivers Siddons's new novel is a stunning tale of love and loss.
For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly--happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it ended as every great love story does...in loss. After Cam's death, Lilly takes a lone road trip to her and Cam's favorite spot on the remote coast of Maine, the place where they fell in love over and over again, where their ghosts still dance. There, she looks hard to her past--to a first love that ended in tragedy; to falling in love with Cam; to a marriage filled with exuberance, sheer life, and safety-- to try to figure out her future.
It is a journey begun with tender memories and culminating in a revelation that will make Lilly re-evaluate everything she thought was true about her husband and her marriage.
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 Well Done Ms. Rivers Siddons....Well Done! August 20, 2008
One of her best by far! I would highly recommend this as a summer read. I spent many enjoyable evenings on my sun porch with a fine glass of wine and this book. Can't think of a better way to spend my time!
 A tale of many loves... August 19, 2008
Ms. River Siddons's new tale is an extraordinary song of love and loss, reinvention and perseveance with a dash or two of well, magic. Set initially on one of Maine's less wellknown sections of coast in the early 60's, you are introduced to a shabby genteel family with academic father, painter mother, introverted son and gang leader daughter who "summer" in their slightly down-at-the-heels wooden house. That fateful summer of 1962 leads to many changes in the protangist daughter's life which echo through her life and the novel. Lilly retraces those early years at Edgewater, the Maine cottage, when she unexpectantly loses her beloved huband Cam and goes to scatter his ashes in the place he felt most at home. Loss of parents, a first love and the changes one makes to keep going on are revealed in flashbacks. Coastal Maine is as much a character in this book as any of the humans named and it's evident that the author holds the magic of the place as precious as any gem. An engaging read to share with friends...
Off Season August 19, 2008
What a wonderful read. I don't know how an adult can capture childhood emotions so perfectly and with such recall but she did.. Beautifully written. I admit I reread the ending three times to comprehend what I had read.
Revisiting the Past... August 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In her newest novel, Anne Rivers Siddons has triumphed. Off Season is a beautiful rendering of one family, the connections between its members, and the flawed relationships created by secrets and betrayal.
When Lilly Constable McCall loses her husband Cam, to an untimely death, she escapes to the family's summer home on the coast of Maine. It is here that all of her memories, both beautiful and painful, descend...
It all washes over her, just as the coastal tides sweep the shores---memories of beautiful family vacations, childhood friendships, first love. And pain. Horrible, searing pain that can only be appeased by allowing the memories, good and bad, to sweep over her so that she can
finally come to grips with the secrets and betrayals of one long ago summer...the last one she spent with her birth family at the coastal house. When she experienced her first love and her first loss.
She remembers everything now. How, after the first pain and loss, followed so quickly by another, her heart decides that it is too much, so she retreats into a hermit-like existence. Protecting herself from further pain. She turns to a new obsession and becomes an underwater
swimmer, escaping each day, wearing her wetsuit and helmet...Until she meets Cameron McCall.
They fall in love, marry, have children...And she thinks she knows everything there is to know about him. They are two peas in a pod...right?
But when he dies and when she escapes again to her summer home, she learns more about him. And about herself.
An enchanting story of love, loss, and renewal, this tale is a beautiful addition to Ms. Siddons' collection of family sagas.
Okay .. I will admit ... August 17, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Will admit to two things: Chose this book because of the cover photo (yes, I know such a weak reason) and this is my first Siddons book.
Thoroughly loved it - the change of time crafted very well. Main character extremely "real."
When I got to the end of the book I wasn't sure I understood at first. Very well written - but felt while the end was very clever and complex - Siddons ended the book abrubtly and left the reader slightly out of kilter.
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