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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0316734837
ISBN-13: 9780316734837
Nov 2002
Publisher: Back Bay Books
473 pages
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
In the summer of 1899, 15-year-old Olympia Biddeford visits the New Hampshire coast with her wealthy Boston family. Spirited and bright, she soon befriends her father's colleague, Dr. John Haskell, a talented writer, respected physician, and enthusiastic philanthropist. Olympia's summer of awakenings--both intellectual and sexual--turns bleak when her love affair with the good doctor, who is a married father of four and 26 years Olympia's senior, is uncovered.
| Size | | Length: | 473 pages | | Height: | 6.8 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[P]leasantly atmospheric....Olympia leaps out in sharp focus from the first page, but the conscientiously tangled plodding and the muddle it provokes in her show the strain of transplanting a millennial sensibility back a hundred years."
Kirkus Reviews (10/15/1999)
"Like Shreve's last novel..., FORTUNE'S ROCKS is a slickly made confection for readers who want to laugh and cry at the noble struggle of the human heart...."
New York Times Book Review - Albert Mobilio (12/26/1999)
"FORTUNE'S ROCKS is 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 Review - Kirsten Davison (05/20/2000)
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