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.
Genres
- 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
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