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The Beach House | 
| Author: Jane Green
Publisher: Viking Adult
Category: Book
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Rating:  110 reviews
Sales Rank: 169
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0670018856
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780670018857
ASIN: 0670018856
Publication Date: June 17, 2008
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Product Description
The perfect title for the perfect beach read from the New York Times bestselling Author
Jane Green is one of the preeminent authors of womens fiction today, and with each new novel, her audience grows. Greens avid and loyal fans follow her because she writes about the true-to-life dilemmas of womenand The Beach House will not disappoint.
Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesnt care what people think. At sixty-five-years old, her husband died twenty years ago, her beauty has faded, and her family has flown. If her neighbors are away, why shouldnt she skinny dip in their swimming pools and help herself to their flowers? But when she discovers the money she thought would last forever is dwindling and she could lose her beloved house, Nan knows she has to make drastic changes.
So Nan takes out an ad: Rooms to rent for the summer in a beautiful old Nantucket home with water views and direct access to the beach. Slowly, people start moving into the house, filling it with noise, with laughter, and with tears. As the house comes alive again, Nan finds her family expanding. Her son comes home for the summer, and then an unexpected visitor turns all their lives upside-down.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 105 more reviews...
 wonderful book August 29, 2008
Rita Ogorman (Milwaukee WI USA)
Light, fun summer reading. Green's style is very intimate. I felt as though she was sitting across the table from me and telling me the details of her characters lives. And what characters they are. Motivation is something that always look for. Many times it's hard to find. But here the characters' actions and feelings make sense.
An Easy Read August 29, 2008
C. L. Bux (Huntley, IL)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
An easy read with nothing too mind straining, but totally enjoying. Holds your interest while not taxing the brain.
The Beach House August 28, 2008
Janet L. Sanders (Memphis, TN)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Read this on the beach. Loved it. Kept picturing Diane Keaton as main character.
 disappointing August 27, 2008
PatriciaH500 (Los Angeles, CA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are a white, upper middle class, female 30- or 40-something from New England who is going through a divorce, this book may be cathartic for you. However, if you fit another demographic group, this book is probably a waste of money and time. If you can stick with it past the halfway point, it is somewhat more readable (but not great). The stream of consciousness style combined with omniscient narrator style (sometimes both in the same paragraph!)is annoying , as are all the run on sentences and bad punctuation/typos (plurals where she means possessive), etc. But primarily it's simply unpleasant to read all the whining and soul searching of every character in the book as white upper middle class marriage after marriage breaks up, combined with the absence of action (other than to pack up and travel to the beach house). A much better use of your energy would be Anita Diamant's "Last Days of Dogtown" or "Red Tent." Chick books too (although my husband also likes them), but extremely well written and researched. Diamant's fluid and lovely writing style, historical perspective, thoughtful observations, action, and the interaction between characters is gripping.
The Beach House by Jane Green August 26, 2008
Barbara Jean (San Ramon, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very entertaining, though somewhat predictable. Great light summer read. Made me want to visit Nantucket. Enjoyable.
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