Fortune's Rocks: A Novel
by Shreve, Anita
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0316678104
- ISBN 13
- 9780316678100
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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Back Bay Books, 2001. Very Good+. The time is the turn of the last century, the setting a rocky New Hampshire coastline resort area nicknamed "Fortune's Rocks." Olympia Biddeford, age 15, is walking the beach, feeling the first stirrings of her womanhood. The strong-willed daughter of an upstanding Boston couple, she soon "learns of desire" as she begins a passionate affair with a married writer, John Hask ell, three times her age. From the moment they meet (he is a visiting frien d of her father's), they experience a sexual sparkAOlympia feels "liquid" i n his presence. Soon, they fall into sinful trysting. Shreve (The Pilot's W ife) serves up these opening events with breathless immediacy. Once the plo t gets a chance to developAOlympia gets pregnant, gives up child, fights to get child backAit settles down considerably, turning into a modernized The Scarlet Letter, a tale of a woman attaining feminist independence by livin g outside her period's societal mores.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000010439
- Title
- Fortune's Rocks: A Novel
- Author
- Shreve, Anita
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0316678104
- ISBN 13
- 9780316678100
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2001
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About Infinity Books Japan
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