The Other Anna

by Barbara Esstman

Book Overview

Three generations of women fall prey to the ecstasy and danger of desire. Anna Berter is a teenager growing up in a privileged home in Iowa just before World War I. Anna's life is dominated by two... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151704104
• ISBN13: 9780151704101
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

A modern-day classic

Simply put, you won't find better writing. On the surface a coming-of-age novel, young Anna's story touches on just about everything that matters: love, sex, betrayal, loyalty, truth. This is a book that you can read again and again. It's something of a well-kept secret, but we should share the wealth: Read this book and then tell every book lover you know.

Beautiful paperback of this modern masterpiece

I was delighted to see that this wonderful novel was being reissued in paperback. Snap it up now, before the vagueries of market forces get their way with this work, a rare touching piece of literary fiction! Plot, characterization and setting all tell perfectly the story of a girl coming of age, but above all, the writing is what makes me come back to this work again and again. A real command for portraying the complex magic realism of everyday life make this head shoulders one of the top published works in America in this year, or any.