Fortune's rocks : a novel/ Anita Shreve.
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TextPublication details: London : Abacus, 2000, c1999.Description: 453 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0349112592 (pbk.)
- 813 SHR
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Fiction Collection | 813 SHR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100514554 |
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| 813 SHA Too far / | 813 SHA The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie society / | 813 SHR All he ever wanted / | 813 SHR Fortune's rocks : a novel/ | 813 STO The help / | 813 SYN Stealing the network : how to own a continent / | 813 SYN Stealing the network : how to own the box / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Anita Shreve grew up in Dedham, Massachusetts. After receiving a bachelor's degree in English from Tufts University, she taught high school English for five years before becoming a full-time author. She worked for an English-language magazine in Nairobi and wrote for everything from Cosmopolitan magazine to The New York Times. Her nonfiction books included Remaking Motherhood and Women Together, Women Alone. Her novels included Eden Close, Strange Fits of Passion, Where or When, Fortune's Rocks, Rescue, Stella Bain, and The Stars are Fire. Several of her books were made into movies including The Pilot's Wife, Resistance, and The Weight of Water. She died from cancer on March 29, 2018 at the age of 71.(Bowker Author Biography)