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Rich Man, Poor Man
Rich Man Poor Man
Author: Irwin Shaw
This is the story of brothers Rudolph and Thomas Jordache and their sister, Gretchen. The Jordaches are German-American, their father a 1920s immigrant who fought on the wrong side in the First World War and now in 1945 works in a down-beat bakery selling stale cherry pie in New York. Embittered, brutal and miserly, Axel Jordache holds little ch...  more »
ISBN: 132
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A marvelous family saga that cuts across twenty years of violently changing America; from the Hudson River Valley to Mediterranean playgrounds of the rich, with stops in Greenwich Village and Hollywood.
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Beautifully written book, keeps you in suspense, twice as good as the movie