Fortune's Rocks

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Goodreads Rating: 3.84 of 5 stars

Title: Fortune's Rocks
Author: Anita Shreve
Publisher: Abacus Book - Little, Brown & Company
Published Date: 2000
Pages: 578
Format: Paperback Pocket Book
Livros em Inglês
Literatura > Romance
ISBN 10: 0349112770
ISBN 13: 9780349112770

Synopsis
´IN THE TIME it takes for her to walk from the bath-house at the seawall of Fortune´s Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.´
Hester Prynne never had it so good! The year is 1899, and Olympia Biddeford, the headstrong daughter of a Boston Brahmin family, has decided to test the limits of her cloistered world. Spending the summer at her father´s New Hampshire estate, the teenage heroine of Fortune´s Rocks is entranced with the visiting salon of artists, writers and lawyers. She´s especially captivated, however, by John Haskell, a charismatic physician who ministers to the blue-collar community in the nearby mill towns. This middle-aged Good Samaritan hires Olympia to assist him as a nurse and their collaboration soon evolves into a fiery love affair. Alas, it´s only a matter of weeks before this passionate exercise in managed care is exposed--with disastrous consequences for the young, impregnated heroine. Even her adoring father now considers her "an over-plump, 16-year-old girl whose judgement can no longer be trusted" and insists that she break off her relationship.
Review
"Enthralling." Baltimore Sun

"Fortune´s Rocks kept me reading long into the nightand found me back at it right after breakfast.... Shreve renders an adolescent girl´s plunge into disastrous passion with excruciating precision and acuteness." Boston Globe

"A beautifully written narrative, rich in detail and in a style that has the perfection of a snowflake and all the passion and intensity of first love." Seattle Times

"A deliciously intelligent page-turner.... A succulent novel of forbidden Victorian passion.... It has a morally complex heroine, a breakneck narrative, and an emotional story filled with unpredictable twists and turns." Hartford Courant

"Engagingly told.... The plot draws you into its increasing tension." New York Times

"Keeps you on the edge of your seat.... Fortune´s Rocks is a splendid novel that you won´t be able to put down." Providence Journal