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Fortune's rocks : a novel

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	PS3569.H7385 F67 1999	Off-site

Description

453 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"On a beach in New Hampshire at the turn of the last century, a young woman is drawn into a rocky, disastrous passage to adulthood. Olympia Biddeford is the only child of a prominent Boston couple - a precocious and well-educated daughter, alive with ideas and flush with the first stirrings of maturity. Her summer at the family's vacation home in Fortune's Rocks is transformed by the arrival of a doctor, a friend of her father's, whose new book about mill-town laborers has caused a sensation.
Olympia is captivated by his thinking, his stature, and his drive to do right - even as she is overwhelmed for the first time by irresistible sexual desire. She and the doctor - a married man, a father, and nearly three times her age - come together in an unthinkable, torturous, hopelessly passionate affair. Throwing aside propriety and self-preservation, Olympia plunges forward with cataclysmic results that are the price of straying in an unforgiving era."--BOOK JACKET.

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Genre/Form

Bildungsromans.

ISBN

0316781010

LCCN

99042665

OCLC

ocm41991464

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries