Resistance by Anita Shreve (1995, Hardcover)

Resistance
by Anita Shreve
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Copyright 1995

As she has done in her novels Eden Close, Strange Fits of Passion, and Where or When, Anita Shreve once again leads readers into a harrowing world where lives are catastrophically overturned by emotion.  Set in a Belgian village amid the wreckage of World War II, Resistance is a powerful exploration of passion, self-discovery, and sacrifice from one of our most accomplished storytellers.

Just as the Nazi occupation forces have drained her village of coffee, meat, and chocolate, the war has also depleted whatever joy there may have been in Claire Daussois's marriage.  On their small farm in the south of Belgium, Claire and her husband, Henri, shelter refugees -- Jews, Allied pilots, and fleeing Belgian soldiers -- before passing them along toward France and freedom.  Claire nurses the wounded, acts as interpreter, and waits for the war to end -- and, in a way she finds difficult to admit, even to herself, for her own life to change.

And it does, when an American B-17 bomber is downed near their village.  The pilot, badly injured, is found by a young boy who turns to Claire for help in saving him.  Henri is away on Resistance work.  As the pilot heals and recovers in her attic hiding place, Claire begins to awaken to the possibility of love.  Over the course of a mere twenty days, closed from the world and the war in her farmhouse, Claire and Lieutenant Ted Brice experience a life-changing passion that neither has felt before.  That their love is also haunted and impossible only makes it more precious.  The war recedes in the face of their joy -- before imposing itself once more with shocking suddenness and inconceivable horror.

Resistance is the story of a young Belgian woman, an American pilot, and the small war-torn village that shelters them.  Richly peopled and fearlessly, gorgeously passionate, it is a powerful exploration of emotion at odds with commitment.  No reader who has loved -- or resisted love -- will forget this lucid and moving tale.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages may be tanning and discolored from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Dust cover and dust cover flaps are lightly discolored.

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