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Fortune's Rocks
by Shreve, Anita
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316781010
- ISBN 13
- 9780316781015
- Seller
-
Webster, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 6x1x9. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy. 1999 Hard Cover. 453 pp. With grace and understatement, Shreve evokes 15-year-old Olympia's emerging sexuality, her family cottage on Fortune's Rocks, and the bright, sea-clean season. The perfect complement to the heroine's enchanted world is Dr. John Haskell, a physician and writer who provides care to the poor of a nearby mill town. Despite his wife and children, Haskell and Olympia fall in love and are soon caught in flagrante. Disgraced, the Biddeford family leaves Fortune's Rocks for Boston, where Olympia discovers she is pregnant. She gives birth, the child is taken to an orphanage, and Olympia is exiled to a western Massachusetts convent. Olympia eventually returns to the cottage at Fortune's Rocks to rebuild her life. She seeks out and finds her lost son, and files a suit to recover him. The trial (a very '90s concoction, with ethnic and class conflict at its heart) is stirring, and though Olympia wins—the adoptive parents are too grubby to raise the boy correctly'she refuses the victory when she sees their pain. Haskell returns from his exile in the West, where he has been treating immigrants and Native Americans, to find Olympia's love for him still strong. They marry, and, sensing the distant strains of political correctness, convert the cottage into a birthing center for unmarried women. Olympia leaps out in sharp focus from the first page, but the conscientiously tangled plotting and the muddle it provokes in her show the strain of transplanting a millennial sensibility back a hundred years.
Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Muse Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2282452
- Title
- Fortune's Rocks
- Author
- Shreve, Anita
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316781010
- ISBN 13
- 9780316781015
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 6x1x9
- Keywords
- ANITA SHREVE CONTEMPORARY FICTION
- X weight
- 27 oz
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About the Seller
Yesterday's Muse Books
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About Yesterday's Muse Books
Yesterday's Muse Inc. is an independent used & rare bookseller that has been in operation for over 15 years. We opened our first 'brick and mortar' storefront in December of 2008 in our hometown of Webster, NY.Owner Jonathan Smalter is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), former vice president of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), both of which are trade organizations created to promote ethical online selling practices, and to encourage continuing education among fellow booksellers. He is also a 2011 graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS). He has nearly 20 years of experience in the book trade, during which time he has become adept at evaluating used and collectible books.
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