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A Change in Altitude (Hardcover)

By: Anita Shreve (Author)

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"A CHANGE IN ALTITUDE rises a few thousand feet above typical women's fiction....[It] works...as a depiction of a change in latitude--as a portrait of the lives of Americans and Europeans living on the African equator during the late 1970s."

"[Shreve] knows how to keep a reader engaged....[She] packs an impressive amount of sympathetic and intelligent detail into this narrative..."

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Struggling to maintain her sense of self and her understanding of the world while spending the first year of her marriage in Kenya, Geraldine participates in a climbing expedition to Mt. Kenya and is challenged to come to terms with a devastating accident. By the Orange-finalist author of Testimony. 400,000 first printing.

Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband.
A British couple invites the newlyweds to join on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and they eagerly agree. But during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain and how these events have transformed her and her marriage, perhaps forever.
"A Change in Altitude "illuminates the inner landscape of a couple, the irrevocable impact of tragedy, and the elusive nature of forgiveness. With stunning language and striking emotional intensity, Anita Shreve transports us to the exotic panoramas of Africa and into the core of our most intimate relationships.

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In the days before she was a bestselling novelist, Anita Shreve worked in Kenya as journalist, and she has crafted a literary portrait of the lush African countryside and the delicate politics of post-colonialism which absolutely shimmers with the lucid relevance of memory. Her story centers on a pair of British newlyweds, Margaret and Patrick, who move to Kenya for a year and find that their relationship is irrevocably altered once they have left the comfort of their native land. At first, they try to talk around their anxiety and sudden discomfort with the land, the people, and each other, but a tragic incident on a mountainside forces them to expose their hidden doubts and fears. Shreve masterfully mingles an intricate analysis of the complexities of marriage, where the most essential expressions are often subtle, silent gestures, with a grand exploration of the glorious wilderness of Kenya.

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