The release date for the English version of 'Fortune's Rocks' by
Anita Shreve is Nov 2002. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A study of class biases, a reflection on the sensual lives of women, and above all, a portrait of the ideas and deeds of a remarkable young lady.
Fortune's Rocks is a deep and poignant tale of foolish love and the decisions that change a life, written by Anita Shreve, the renowned author of The Pilot's Wife and The Weight of Water.
At the beginning of the 20th century, a young lady on a New Hampshire beach is pulled into a perilous and difficult journey towards maturity. Olympia Biddeford is the only child of a well-known Boston couple. She is a bright, intelligent girl who is full of ideas and showing signs of maturity. The summer she spends at the family's Fortune's Rocks vacation property is changed when a doctor who is a friend of her father's and whose new book on mill-town workers has become a sensation arrives. Even though Olympia is overwhelmed for the first time by overwhelming physical desire, she is enthralled by his way of thinking, his height, and his determination to do the right thing. The doctor, who is over three times her age, married, and a parent, meets her for an unimaginable, agonizing, and desperately love affair. Olympia disregards decorum and self-preservation, making a drastic decision that comes with the consequences of straying in a harsh time. Fortune's Rocks tells the narrative of Olympia, who is expelled from her familiar environment and finds herself determined to rebuild her life and get the one item she discovers she cannot live without.
One of the most outstanding authors of our day, Fortune's Rocks, is a masterwork of narrative drama. It is a study on the sensual lives of women, an investigation of class biases, and above all, a picture of the thoughts and deeds of a memorable young lady.