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.
La Famille Lavette Séries
Cette saga familiale épique retrace le parcours tumultueux d'une famille d'immigrants qui s'efforce de se faire une place dans l'Amérique du début du XXe siècle. Sur plusieurs générations, le récit explore les thèmes de l'ambition, de la résilience et de la quête incessante du rêve américain. Il offre un portrait cru et profondément humain d'individus confrontés à l'adversité et aspirant au succès dans un nouveau pays. La série explore les complexités des liens familiaux et l'espoir inébranlable d'un avenir meilleur.
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Second Generation
- 448pages
- 16 heures de lecture
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.
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.
The Legacy continues the saga of the Lavette family begun in these bestsellers: The Immigrants, Second Generation, and The Establishment. This fourth-in-series story takes place during the turbulent 1960's as Barbara Lavette and her family are embroiled in the issues of that decade: Civil Rights, Israel's Six-Day War, the Nixon years, Vietnam and riots in the street. Barbara Lavette develops into a powerful, strong willed, capable person while the children of the third generation of Lavettes take their place in society and stand by their own ideals and values. The Legacy will capture listeners with its involving story and leave them wanting more
An Independent Woman
- 372pages
- 14 heures de lecture
In this sixth novel of the Immigrants series, matriarch Barbara Lavette continues to surprise family and friends as she fights for justice and finds love again.