Fortune's rocks

Description:

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: Sexual behavior,  Social life and customs,  Man-woman relationships,  Single mothers,  Fiction,  Social conditions,  Young women,  Dutch fiction,  Mills and mill-work,  History,  Manners and customs,  Fiction, romance, historical,  New hampshire, fiction,  Fathers and daughters, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Fiction, romance, historical, general

Places: New Hampshire,  New England,  United States,  Boston (Mass.)

Times: 19th century