Fortune's Rocks

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name = Fortune's Rocks
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Anita Shreve
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Romance novel
publisher = Little, Brown and Company
release_date = December 2, 1999
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media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
pages = 453 pp
isbn = ISBN 0316781010
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followed_by = Sea Glass

"Fortune's Rocks" is a 1999 romance novel by bestselling author Anita Shreve. It is chronologically the first novel in Shreve's trilogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent. It is followed by "Sea Glass" and "The Pilot's Wife".

Plot introduction

In the summer of 1899, Olympia Biddeford, a privileged, intelligent and confident fifteen year old who is vacationing with her family at Fortune's Rocks, falls in love with a married 41-year-old doctor and journalist, John Haskell. Their passionate affair, and subsequent discovery, produces a son and leads to far-reaching consequences that span several decades.

External links

* [http://www.bookpage.com/9912bp/anita_shreve.html Telling the timeless tale:] An Interview with Anita Shreve about "Fortune's Rocks"
* [http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/12/08/shreve/index.html Salon Book Review]