The Fortune's Rocks Quartet
Fortune's Rocks, Sea Glass, The Pilot's Wife, Body Surfing
THE FORTUNE'S ROCKS QUARTET collects four of Anita Shreve's
most beloved novels-Fortune's Rocks, The Pilot's Wife, Sea
Glass, and Body Surfing-for the first time. The novels
highlight Shreve's ability to illuminate women's lives across different eras
and share a delightful detail: they are all set in the same coastal New
England home, one that has
inspired Shreve for over a decade. Any house with age to it can tell a million
stories about the families who have lived there, and Shreve has been quoted as
saying, ''You could base an entire life's work on the people who come in and
out of a house.''
Fortune's Rocks depicts a spirited young woman at the turn of the 20th century who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man. In Sea Glass, a young couple's new marriage is rocked to the core by the 1929 stock market crash. The Pilot's Wife brings us to the present day, where Kathryn is unprepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has been killed in a plane crash. Sydney, the heroine of Body Surfing has already been once divorced and once widowed by the age of 29, and finds the fragile existence she has rebuilt for herself threatened when two brothers vie for her affections.
"There's something addictive about Shreve's tales," according to USA TODAY, and this quality is on full display in the critically acclaimed novels of THE FORTUNE'S ROCKS QUARTET. No one writes more compellingly than Anita Shreve about marriage, family, the depths of our strength and resolve, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.
Fortune's Rocks depicts a spirited young woman at the turn of the 20th century who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man. In Sea Glass, a young couple's new marriage is rocked to the core by the 1929 stock market crash. The Pilot's Wife brings us to the present day, where Kathryn is unprepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has been killed in a plane crash. Sydney, the heroine of Body Surfing has already been once divorced and once widowed by the age of 29, and finds the fragile existence she has rebuilt for herself threatened when two brothers vie for her affections.
"There's something addictive about Shreve's tales," according to USA TODAY, and this quality is on full display in the critically acclaimed novels of THE FORTUNE'S ROCKS QUARTET. No one writes more compellingly than Anita Shreve about marriage, family, the depths of our strength and resolve, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.
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Format: Electronic Book
Price: $19.99 US/$19.99 CAN
ISBN-13: 9780316183574
On Sale Date: 11/01/2010
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Formats Available: Electronic Book
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THE FORTUNE'S ROCKS QUARTET collects four of Anita Shreve's
most beloved novels-Fortune's Rocks, The Pilot's Wife, Sea
Glass, and Body Surfing-for the first time. The novels
highlight Shreve's ability to illuminate women's lives across different eras
and share a delightful detail: they are all set in the same coastal New
England home, one that has
inspired Shreve for over a decade. Any house with age to it can tell a million
stories about the families who have lived there, and Shreve has been quoted as
saying, ''You could base an entire life's work on the people who come in and
out of a house.''
Fortune's Rocks depicts a spirited young woman at the turn of the 20th century who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man. In Sea Glass, a young couple's new marriage is rocked to the core by the 1929 stock market crash. The Pilot's Wife brings us to the present day, where Kathryn is unprepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has been killed in a plane crash. Sydney, the heroine of Body Surfing has already been once divorced and once widowed by the age of 29, and finds the fragile existence she has rebuilt for herself threatened when two brothers vie for her affections.
"There's something addictive about Shreve's tales," according to USA TODAY, and this quality is on full display in the critically acclaimed novels of THE FORTUNE'S ROCKS QUARTET. No one writes more compellingly than Anita Shreve about marriage, family, the depths of our strength and resolve, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.
Fortune's Rocks depicts a spirited young woman at the turn of the 20th century who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man. In Sea Glass, a young couple's new marriage is rocked to the core by the 1929 stock market crash. The Pilot's Wife brings us to the present day, where Kathryn is unprepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has been killed in a plane crash. Sydney, the heroine of Body Surfing has already been once divorced and once widowed by the age of 29, and finds the fragile existence she has rebuilt for herself threatened when two brothers vie for her affections.
"There's something addictive about Shreve's tales," according to USA TODAY, and this quality is on full display in the critically acclaimed novels of THE FORTUNE'S ROCKS QUARTET. No one writes more compellingly than Anita Shreve about marriage, family, the depths of our strength and resolve, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.
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