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Rocas de la Fortuna Serie

Esta serie profundiza en los tumultuosos viajes de iniciación de mujeres jóvenes en el contexto de las convenciones sociales de principios del siglo XX. La narrativa se sumerge en las complejidades de los primeros amores, los despertares sexuales y las inevitables consecuencias de desafiar las normas sociales. Sigue a las protagonistas mientras navegan por los prejuicios de clase y se esfuerzan por redefinir sus vidas después de tomar decisiones catastróficas. Ofrece una poderosa exploración del erotismo femenino, las tensiones sociales y la resiliencia del espíritu humano frente a la adversidad.

Body Surfing
La Mujer del piloto
Sea Glass
Olympia

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  1. Olympia

    • 377 páginas
    • 14 horas de lectura

    On a beach in New Hampshire at the turn of the last century, a young woman is drawn into a rocky, disastrous passage to adulthood. Olympia Biddeford is the only child of a prominent Boston couple—a precocious and well-educated daughter, alive with ideas and flush with the first stirrings of maturity. Her summer at the family's vacation home in Fortune's Rocks is transformed by the arrival of a doctor, a friend of her father's, whose new book about mill-town labourers has caused a sensation. Olympia is captivated by his thinking, his stature, and his drive to do right—even as she is overwhelmed for the first time by irresistible sexual desire. She and the doctor—a married man, a father, and nearly three times her age—come together in an unthinkable, torturous, hopelessly passionate affair. Throwing aside propriety and self-preservation, Olympia plunges forward with cataclysmic results that are the price of straying in an unforgiving era. Olympia is cast out of the world she knows, and Fortune's Rocks is the story of her determination to reinvent her broken life—and claim the one thing she finds she cannot live without. A meditation on the erotic life of women, an exploration of class prejudices, and most of all a portrayal of the throughts and actions of an unforgettable young woman, Fortune's Rocks is a masterpiece of narrative drama, beautifully written by one of the most accomplished novelists of our time.

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    3,9

  2. Sea Glass

    • 366 páginas
    • 13 horas de lectura

    The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for bits of sea glass on the beach, Sexton risks everything they own to buy the house they both love. Along with millions of other Americans, he is blindsided by the stock market crash and finds himself penniless. The only work he can find is at a nearby mill, where a labour conflict is erupting into violence. Shaken by forces they scarcely understand, Honora and Sexton try to build a marriage and home while overwhelmed by passions of every kind. Writing with the power and immediacy that have made her novels bestsellers, Shreve unfolds interlocking lives, each with its own share of love, loss and challenge. This is another gripping and unforgettable story of the human heart from one of the most accomplished novelists of our time.

    Sea Glass2
    3,6

  3. La Mujer del piloto

    • 316 páginas
    • 12 horas de lectura

    La noticia del dramático accidente que ha sufrido el avión que pilotaba el marido de Kathryn desencadena toda una trama de espionaje y terrorismo internacional que ella jamás hubiese sospechado.

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  4. Body Surfing

    • 264 páginas
    • 10 horas de lectura

    At the age of twenty-nine, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to find her footing again, she has answered an advertisement to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt is threatened. With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant insight into real emotion that has led her to be called 'a supremely elegant anatomist of the human heart' (The Times), Shreve weaves a story about risk, family, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.

    Body Surfing4
    3,3