Fortune's rocks a novel
Anita Shreve
- 1st ed.
- Boston : Little, Brown, c1999.
- 453 p. ; 25 cm.
- Fortune's Rocks Quartet Series Book 1 .
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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Young women--Sexual behavior--New England--Fiction. Mills and mill-work--New England--Fiction.
New England--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction. New England--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.