"The Stars Are Fire" By Anita Shreve Knopf. 256 pp. $25.95 Anita Shreve's books are reliably engrossing literary page-turners, never formulaic — unless trouble and desire mixed with the vicissitudes of fortune can be called a formula. In almost 20 novels, including "The Pilot's Wife," "Fortune's Rocks" and "The Weight of Water," Shreve consistently creates complex characters and plots, often drawn from the historical record or [...]
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