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.
It is the summer of 1899, and Olympia Biddeford and her parents have retired from the heat of Boston to the coastal resort of Fortune's Rocks. When the celebrated essayist John Haskell is invited to stay, no one foresees the affair that is to follow. What begins as the briefest of silences becomes a relationship that is both passionate and destructive - six short weeks that will shape the rest of their lives.
In the textile-manufacturing region of New Hampshire in 1929, newlyweds Honora and Sexton Beecher wrestle with all the wonders and challenges that young couples have always faced. They've just purchased a house near the ocean that needs a lot of work, but the couple is dedicated to making it a home. When the economy fails and a single unscrupulous act perpetrated by Sexton is revealed, more than love will be required to keep the marriage from collapsing under the weight of this betrayal. Sexton -- formerly a traveling salesman -- is forced to take a job at the local mill alongside other men, women, and children whose very survival is being threatened by the harsh burden of their daily toil. Repeated pay cuts and inhumane conditions propel the workers closer to a potentially violent clash with management and union breakers. Alliances are formed, honor is challenged, and character flaws become fatal as the tinderbox explodes, leaving old bonds broken and new ones bolstered.
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.
Deceptive love and stark betrayal form the icy core of this dark 12th novel from Oprah-anointed (The Pilot's Wife), Orange Prize finalist (The Weight of Water) Shreve. Set adrift at 29 by the sudden death of her second husband (her first divorced her), smart, underemployed Sydney (no last name) signs on for a quiet New England oceanfront summer of tutoring 18-year-old Julie, the intellectually slow but artistically talented and strikingly beautiful daughter of the fractious Edwards clan. The family includes Julie's brothers35-year-old Boston corporate real estate man Ben and 31-year-old M.I.T. poli-sci professor Jeffand the three children's parents. Sydney is half-Jewish, and Mrs. Edwards is anti-Semitic. Family tensions escalate when Julie disappears, then resurfaces in Montreal as the lesbian lover of 25-year-old Helene (a body surfer who frequented the beach near the Edwardses' home). Jeff and Sydney bond during their search for Julie, nights of passion leading to plans for a joyous wedding, which get very complicated when the couple returns to Edwards central