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Fortune's Rocks

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Coming-of-age tale amidst forbidden romance.

"Fortune's Rocks" feels like a journey into both the complexities of the human heart and a bygone era. If you're drawn to stories with rich character development and narratives that capture the emotional turbulence of youth and first love, this book will resonate with you. Anita Shreve's masterful description will transport you back in time, weaving a story that's as much about personal growth as it is about romance and societal norms.

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.
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Fortune's Rocks

Regular price ₱539.55 ₱341.55 37% off
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ISBN: 9780349112763
Authors: Anita Shreve
Publisher: Abacus
Date of Publication: 2001-01-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.9
(rated by 30901 readers)

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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.
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Coming-of-age tale amidst forbidden romance.

"Fortune's Rocks" feels like a journey into both the complexities of the human heart and a bygone era. If you're drawn to stories with rich character development and narratives that capture the emotional turbulence of youth and first love, this book will resonate with you. Anita Shreve's masterful description will transport you back in time, weaving a story that's as much about personal growth as it is about romance and societal norms.

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.