Fortune's Rocks : a novel [electronic resource]

• Tác giả: Anita Shreve
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 075956289X
• ISBN-13: 978-0759562899
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 813.6 American fiction in English
• Thông tin xuất bản: Boston : Little, Brown, 2000.
• Mô tả vật lý: 453 p. ; , 24 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Văn học
• ID: 91563
• Chủ đề: 1. Adulteresses; 2. Bildungsromans; 3. Children of the rich; 4. Historical fiction; 5. Man-woman relationships; 6. Mills and mill-work--New England; 7. New England--Social conditions--19th century; 8. New Hampshire; 9. Physicians; 10. Teenage girls; 11. Unmarried mothers; 12. Young women--Sexual behavior--New England

Tóm tắt

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.