Howard Fast Livres

Sylvia inaugure la série policière des douze titres américains portant un prénom féminin. Howard FAST signe pour la première fois du pseudonyme d'E.V. CUNNINGHAM. Il signe par la même occasion, son meilleur roman policier, que l'on peut d'ailleurs préférer à ses plus grandes réussites historiques. L'anecdote en est fort simple : il s'agit pour le détective privé Allan MACKLIN de reconstituer le passé d'une inconnue que veut épouser un milliardaire. La jeune femme devra tout ignorer de cette enquête. Pour parvenir à ses fins, MACKLIN ne dispose que d'une photo, d'une carte manuscrite et d'un recueil de poèmes, LA LUNE OBSCURE, publiée par la mystérieuse Sylvia WEST. Cette situation de base, archétype de bien des histoires de détective privé, l'auteur va la transcender par sa sensibilité et par la puissance d'émotion qu'il saura lui conférer en la transformant en une radieuse " histoire d'amour " .

The best-selling novel about a slave revolt in ancient Rome and the basis for the popular motion picture. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The late author of Spartacus and April Morning traces the epic history of the Jewish people in a study that spans six thousand years from ancient times to the Holocaust, examining Jewish customs, philosophy, religion, traditions, and influence and bringing to life the men and women who have shaped the history of a people. Reprint.

Howard Fast, author of The Immigrants, has proven himself to be one of this country's most popular authors. This second volume about the fortunes of Dan Lavette, the young Italian who lost his parents but launched a stormy and brilliant career as a result of the great San Francisco earthquake, encompasses an even more dramatic sweep of history from the depression years to the close of World War II. It is the rare novelist who can create a world with such empathy and passion that the listener actually comes to share the loves and emotions of its characters.

Dan Lavette-the roughneck son of an Italian fisherman. He battled out of the rubble of the San Francisco earthquake to build a mighty shipping empire; rose to the gilded heights of Nob Hill society through a loveless marriage to the daughter of the city's wealthiest family -and risked it all for the beautiful Oriental woman who was his secret, scandalous passion. This is the story of America's newcomers, whose hungers were fed only with hope...And of the bold few who built that hope into a world of money and power... Who dreamed the American dream and made American history, while the new century came of age.

The inspiring story of Max Britsky, who grew up in the slums of New York and became one of the most powerful men in the American movie industry "Max" tells the story of the rise of Max Britsky, entwined with the film industry's beginnings near the turn of the twentieth century. When he was twelve, Max's father died, leaving him to scrape out a living in Manhattan's Lower East Side slums to provide for his mother and siblings. But Max was a natural entrepreneur, and he followed his business instincts and love of the theater to become one of the first film moguls in the history of American moviemaking. Britsky's life story is tragic and triumphant, and yet another example of the unmatched storytelling prowess of Howard Fast, one of the most prolific and widely read authors of the twentieth century. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author's estate.

Being Red is an intimate memoir of an extraordinary time--the years Howard Fast, one of our nation's most popular authors, spent in the American Communist Party, and under the constant surveillance of the FBI. 8-page photo insert.

In The Establishment, Howard Fast pulls the listener into the turbulent and passionate lives of the Dan Lavette family story begun in The Immigrants and continued in Second Generation. Howard Fast again brings to life a cast of characters whose lives become a portrait of their time. Listeners will witness the events in the lives of the children of Dan Lavette: Follow daughter Barbara Lavette, a strong and magnetic personality, from tragedy to final fulfillment; observe the elder son, Tom, as he quests for and finally succumbs to his own unscrupulous drive for power; and feel the conflict as the younger son, Joe, struggles between dedication to his medical work to the poor and having no emotional strength left for his beautiful wife left alone.

Masao Masuto, a Nisei detective in Beverly Hills, navigates a chaotic world filled with crime and cultural contrasts. In "Samantha," he faces a serial killer targeting Hollywood elites, while "The Case of the One-Penny Orange" involves the murders of a stamp dealer and his assistant, linked to a rare 1847 postage stamp. These two gripping adventures showcase Masuto's determination to solve complex cases amidst the backdrop of a vibrant yet dangerous Los Angeles.