Fortune's Rocks Hardcover - 1999
by Anita Shreve
In a summer community on the coast of New Hampshire at the turn of the last century, a girl is drawn into a passionate affair with a married man nearly three times her age. Olympia Biddeford is privileged, well educated, and mature beyond her years--and her affair is with John Haskell, a physician, essayist, and champion of mill workers. Drawn inexorably together on the night of the summer solstice, the pair set in motion a series of events with far-reaching consequences for all involved.
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IN THE TIME it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.
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- Title Fortune's Rocks
- Author Anita Shreve
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Little Brown and Company, Boston
- Date 1999-12-02
- ISBN 9780316781015 / 0316781010
- Weight 1.79 lbs (0.81 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.32 x 1.41 in (23.57 x 16.05 x 3.58 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: New England
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New Hampshire
- Library of Congress subjects Young women - Sexual behavior - New England, New England - Social life and customs - 19th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99042665
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Beyond the Cover Author Interv, 12/01/1999, Page 6
- Booklist, 10/01/1999, Page 308
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/1999, Page 1600
- Library Journal, 09/15/1999, Page 0
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 09/15/1999, Page 64
- New York Times, 12/26/1999, Page 10
- People Weekly, 01/01/2000, Page 41
- Publishers Weekly, 10/04/1999, Page 61
- Publishers Weekly Best Books, 01/01/1999, Page 47
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