Fortune's Rocks
A Novel
by Anita Shreve
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Everywhere hailed for its emotional intensity and unflagging narrative momentum, this magnificent novel transports us to the turn of the twentieth century, to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the social orbit of a spirited young woman who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man, with cataclysmic results.
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Sexual behavior, Social life and customs, Man-woman relationships, Single mothers, Fiction, Social conditions, Young women, Dutch fiction, Mills and mill-work, History, Manners and customs, Fiction, romance, historical, New hampshire, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, romance, historical, generalPlaces
New Hampshire, New England, United States, Boston (Mass.)Times
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Fortune's Rocks: A Novel
January 2, 2001, Back Bay Books
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0316678104 9780316678100
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Fortune's Rocks: A Novel
December 2, 1999, Little, Brown and Company
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in English
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Fortune's rocks: a novel
1999, Random House Large Print, published in association with Little, Brown
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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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