Fortune's RocksFortune's Rocks
a Novel
1st mass market ed.
Title rated 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 79 ratings(79 ratings)
Book, 1999
Current format, Book, 1999, 1st mass market ed, All copies in use.At a turn-of-the-century coastal resort in New Hampshire, fifteen-year-old Olympia Biddeford is drawn into an intense love affair with a much older man, John Haskell, a married physician and activist, which has profound and long-reaching repercussions upon everyone around them. Reprint.
At a turn-of-the-century coastal resort in New Hampshire, young Olympia Biddeford is drawn into an intense love affair with John Haskell, a much older married man, which has a profound and long-reaching impact on everyone around them.
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.
At a turn-of-the-century coastal resort in New Hampshire, young Olympia Biddeford is drawn into an intense love affair with John Haskell, a much older married man, which has a profound and long-reaching impact on everyone around them.
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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