$36.16
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2000
Summary
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 adolescen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349112763 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349112762 |
| Author: | Anita Shreve |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2000 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 31mm |
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It seems like a mighty poem. FORTUNE’S ROCKS, you know, will prove much more than a place name
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 REVIEWA quiet but highly charged novel in which intense emotion is counterpointed with an evocation of landscape - Elizabeth Buchan, THE TIMESIt seems like a mighty poem. FORTUNE’S ROCKS, you know, will prove much more than a place name - OBSERVERAbout The Author
Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve is the author of eleven novels, all published by Little, Brown and Abacus.
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