Fortune's Rocks Lib/E (CD-Audio)

from lit_chick

Shreve tells a compelling story about forbidden love, and about the shame and dishonour levelled at a young woman who gives birth to a child out of wedlock in 1899. It was interesting to observe the Christian-driven, absolute moral indignation of society over childbirth out of wedlock while, simu...

from readingwithtea

I had to give this two ratings - one for each half! I had no patience whatsoever with the first half, which is the tale of how an affair develops between a fifteen-year-old girl and a married forty-one-year-old doctor/political author, at the exclusive summer resort of wealthy families around the...

from dalzan

Set in America in the 1800's. Olympia is approx. 15 years old and is spending the Summer in Fortune's Rocks. She falls in love with a family friend, a married Doctor who has three children. They have a steamy, secret affair. There is outrage when the affair is discovered, especially when Olympia ...

from wareagle78

Shreve is truly a master. Her tale of a Victorian era adulterous relationship between a teenage girl-woman and a middle-aged physician is beautifully told. What is Shreve's strength? Well, her descriptions are wonderful. Precise, elegant, not a needed word unwritten but not a word extra either. I...

from nancynova

The time is the turn of the last century, the setting a rocky New Hampshire coastline resort area nicknamed "Fortune's Rocks." Olympia Biddeford, age 15, is walking the beach, feeling the first stirrings of her womanhood. The strong-willed daughter of an upstanding Boston couple, she soon "learns...