Fortune's Rocks (novel)
Author | Anita Shreve |
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Language | English |
Genre | Romance novel |
Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date | December 2, 1999 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 453 pp |
ISBN | 0-316-78101-0 |
OCLC | 41991464 |
813/.54 21 | |
LC Class | PS3569.H7385 F67 2000 |
Followed by | Sea Glass |
Fortune's Rocks is a 1999 romance novel by bestselling author Anita Shreve. It is chronologically the first novel in Shreve's tetralogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent. It is followed by Sea Glass, The Pilot's Wife and Body Surfing.
Plot introduction
In the summer of 1899, Olympia Biddeford, a privileged, intelligent and confident 15-year-old who is vacationing with her family at Fortune's Rocks, falls in love with a married 41-year-old doctor and journalist, John Haskell. Their passionate affair, and subsequent discovery, produces a son and leads to far-reaching consequences that span several decades.
The novel is loosely based on the seaside neighborhood of Fortunes Rocks, located in Biddeford, Maine.
External links
- Telling the timeless tale An Interview with Anita Shreve about Fortune's Rocks
- Salon Book Review