Fortune's Rocks
A Novel
by Anita Shreve

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Everywhere hailed for its emotional intensity and unflagging narrative momentum, this magnificent novel transports us to the turn of the twentieth century, to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the social orbit of a spirited young woman who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man, with cataclysmic results.
Sexual behaviorSocial life and customsMan-woman relationshipsSingle mothersFictionSocial conditionsYoung womenDutch fictionMills and mill-workHistoryManners and customsFiction, romance, historical