Fortune's Rocks - Anita Shreve

Fortune's Rocks

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
464 Seiten
2001
Abacus (Verlag)
978-0-349-11276-3 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
Stunning evocation of turn-of-the-century Boston and a modern classic of literary romantic fiction.
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.

Anita Shreve is the author of eleven novels, all published by Little, Brown and Abacus.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.1.2001
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 197 mm
Gewicht 310 g
Themenwelt Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 0-349-11276-2 / 0349112762
ISBN-13 978-0-349-11276-3 / 9780349112763
Zustand Neuware
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