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The Balance Wheel
The Balance Wheel
Author: Taylor Caldwell
Charles Wittmann was a lonely man, a widower. Though he loved a woman, every code of honor and decency forbade him to speak of his love. Isolated as Charles was, he was the head of a great industry - and he had Jimmy, a son who meant more to him than life itself. — Now, suddenly Charles Wittmann knew his world was doomed. He had been given a g...  more »
ISBN: 172633
Publication Date: 6/1963
Pages: 504
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Publisher: Pyramid
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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The Balance Wheel has all the strengths and all the weaknesses of the page-turner, pot-boiler novel: decent people caught in the cross purposes of turbulent times; far too many instances of "simple belief" and instictive or intuitive understanding; a passionate statement about the waste and futility of war and an ending that is only ironic when fully comprehended.


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