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Fortune's Rocks

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Passionate summer love with consequences.

This book would be a good read for fans of forbidden romance and coming-of-age stories. The unique aspect of this book is the illicit relationship between a 14-year-old girl and a married adult man. Readers should be prepared for the moral implications that arise from this affair and the impact it has on the young girl's life. Anita Shreve's beautiful descriptions of the setting and emotions make the story compelling and memorable.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Fortune's Rocks

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ISBN: 9780349112770
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Date of Publication: 2000-11-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.9
(rated by 30143 readers)

Description

Set 100 years ago in Boston, Fortune's Rocks is a classic of literary and romantic storytelling. Fourteen-year-old Olympic Biddeford is spending the summer with her parents at their seasonal house at Fortune's Rocks. Her father handles her education himself and is in fact a publisher of mildly liberal literature. One author he admires, who also practises as a physician, comes to visit the house. 40 years old, married with four children, he still embarks on an affair with the adolescent girl. They have a swift, passionate summer, torn apart when they are discovered together during Olympic's fifteenth birthday party. She is taken back to Boston, her parents are mortified and remove themselves from society. When Olympic is delivered of a baby boy nine months later, he is taken from her and she finds herself in exile at a ladies college and then as a governess. She decides she must get her child back, which means returning to Fortune's Rocks... This sensuality of a girl's rite of passage, the descriptions of landscape, weather, music and light, are vintage Shreve and her seventh novel will thrill her many admirers.


Author: Anita Shreve
Format: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Number of Pages: 592
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication Date: 01 Nov 2000
 

Passionate summer love with consequences.

This book would be a good read for fans of forbidden romance and coming-of-age stories. The unique aspect of this book is the illicit relationship between a 14-year-old girl and a married adult man. Readers should be prepared for the moral implications that arise from this affair and the impact it has on the young girl's life. Anita Shreve's beautiful descriptions of the setting and emotions make the story compelling and memorable.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.