Fortune's Rocks
A Novel
About this book
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.
Subjects
- dutch fiction
- fathers and daughters, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, romance, historical
- fiction, romance, historical, general
- history
- manners and customs
- man-woman relationships
- mills and mill-work
- new hampshire, fiction
- sexual behavior
- single mothers
- social conditions
- social life and customs
- young women