The Pilot's Wife

The Pilot's WifeAnita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.' As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job

Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.'
As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash.
Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time.
As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless scrutiny of her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret life?


Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 05/06/1998
ISBN: 9780316789080
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.43w x 1.00d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/1998 pg. 72
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/1998 pg. 294
Publishers Weekly 03/16/1998 pg. 52
Library Journal 03/15/1998 pg. 96
Booklist 05/01/1998 pg. 1504
New York Times 06/07/1998 pg. 37

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 31226 / Pilot's Wife
Reading Level: 5.6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 12