The Fortune's Rocks Quartet: A Four-Part Series

This magnificent novel transports readers 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. The Fortune Rock's 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." The Fortune Rock's Quartet showcases Shreve's talent for crafting compelling narratives that explore the complexities of human relationships and the resilience of the human spirit.

In Fortune's Rocks, readers are transported to the turn of the 20th century, where they encounter a spirited young woman who becomes entangled in a passionate, illicit affair with an older man. The Pilot's Wife brings us to the present day, where Kathryn is unprepared for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has been killed in a plane crash. Sea Glass examines the impact of the 1929 stock market crash on a young couple's new marriage, while Body Surfing follows Sydney, a heroine who has already been once divorced and once widowed by the age of 29, as she navigates the fragile existence she has rebuilt for herself when two brothers vie for her affections.

Shreve's ability to capture the nuances of human relationships and the emotional complexities of her characters is what sets her work apart. "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 Rock's 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.

The Fortune Rock's Quartet is a testament to Shreve's enduring talent as a storyteller. Through her vivid, evocative prose, she transports readers to a world that is both familiar and extraordinary, where the universal truths of the human experience are explored with depth, empathy, and a keen understanding of the complexities of the human condition.

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