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Description for Fortune´s Rocks
Paperback. Stunning evocation of turn-of-the-century Boston and a modern classic of literary romantic fiction. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 30. Weight in Grams: 314.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349112763
SKU
KLN0017019
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve is the author of eleven novels, all published by Little, Brown and Abacus.
Reviews for Fortune´s Rocks
Exceptionally fine ... Shreve writes with power and passion DAILY EXPRESS A powerful portrait of that dangerous limbo of a girl's adolescence when she is no longer a child but not yet a woman LITERARY REVIEW A quiet but highly charged novel in which intense emotion is counterpointed with an evocation of landscape Elizabeth Buchan, THE TIMES It seems like ... Read more