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Fortune's rocks : a novel

Author: Anita Shreve
Publisher: Boston : Back Bay Books, 2001, ©1999.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st Back Bay trade pbk. edView all editions and formats
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In 1890s Boston, a 15-year-old upper-class girl is banished to a convent following an affair with a married doctor which left her pregnant. The girl is forced to surrender the child for adoption, but she subsequently goes to court to recuperate it, and eventually marries the doctor. A study in the mores and manners of the day.
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Genre/Form: Bildungsromans.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Anita Shreve
ISBN: 0316678104 : 9780316678100
OCLC Number: 45751721
Notes: "Reading group guide inside"--Cover.
Description: 473 p. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: Anita Shreve.

Abstract:

In 1890s Boston, a 15-year-old upper-class girl is banished to a convent following an affair with a married doctor which left her pregnant. The girl is forced to surrender the child for adoption, but she subsequently goes to court to recuperate it, and eventually marries the doctor. A study in the mores and manners of the day.

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