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Chargement... Rich Are Different (original 1977; édition 1985)par Susan Howatch (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 1978 - The Rich are Different always conjures for me two separate, but entwined memories. Our group's last summer at home together before our Junior Year & what will become a year of plans to keep us from ever reliving that summer again. This was the novel we selected to read that summer. It was a golden time for the eight of us—long days on the courts, links, or at the pool. The club's summer social events now seem so quaint & lame. Four boys & four girls who had grown up together and now lived in a world where summer never ends & good-byes are distant threats of an unknown time to come. ( ) Susan Howatch is one of my favorite historical fiction authors along with Sharon Kay Penman and M.M. Kaye. I've read Penmarric, Cashelmara, and yes, The Rich Are Different several times along with her other works. I'm always amazed at this book by how well the stories of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Mark Antony, and Octavian Augustus fit in with the post-WWI era of boom and depression. This time the reread had special resonance with the failures on Wall Street today. None of the characters are especially heroic but they do stay true to their historical natures, despite the setting being investment banks for Rome and an English manor house for Eygpt. The book has different POVs, mainly Paul (Julius Caesar), Dinah (Cleopatra), Steve (Mark Antony), and Cornelius (Octavian), with one other being Sylvia (Calpurnia), Paul's wife. They each provide a unique perspective to the story and each other. There is also exhaustive, well-researched detail on world events from the Roaring Twenties to the beginning of WWII. The Rich Are Different is historical fiction at its best, and a book well-worth rereading. CON ESTE TITULO SACADO DE UNA FRASE YA LEGENDARIA DE SCOT FITZFERALD, SUSAN HOWATCH NOS TRAE UNA VISIÓN BRILLANTE Y SUGERENTE DE UNA ÉPOCA INOLVIDABLE :"LOS FELICES AÑOS VEINTE". CENTRADA ALREDEDOR DE UNA MUJER AMBICIOSA DINAH SLADE, ARRUINADA DESCENDIENTE DE UNA ARISTOCRÁTICA FAMILIA INGLESA, ESTA NOVELA NO ES SOLO UN EXTRAORDINARIO DESFILE DE PERSONALIDADES Y CARACTERES, DE ACCIONES Y PASIONES, SINO UN GIGANTESCO ESCENARIO EN EL QUE SE REPRESENTA UN GRAN SUEÑO, EL SUEÑO DEL PODER Y LA PROSPERIDAD NORTEAMERICANA. This was a very satisfying read. If you are interested in historical fiction you need to add Susan Howatch to your to-be-read list. Others are much better at describing her unique way of telling a story from the individual viewpoints of each major character. This is my 4th book and I'm grateful there are more. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: Dinah Slade is a young Englishwoman of immense vitality, great sensual power, and fierce ambition. When the handsome and powerful Paul Van Zale commits the imprudence of falling in love with her, her life and desires become intertwined with the fate of his great American banking family. Among the new acquaintances she makes is Paul's wife, with whom, much to Dinah's shock and dismay, Paul manages an almost perfect marriage. The characters' lives are intertwined with such mastery that listeners will be captivated with The Rich Are Different from the very first word until the astonishing climax. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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