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The fourth entry in Howard Fast's bestselling Immigrants saga, one of his most beloved and personal works The fourth installment of the Immigrants saga, follows Barbara Lavette, the daughter of a self-made Italian immigrant, through the turmoil of the 1960s, including the Vietnam War, the feminist and civil rights movements, and Israel's Six Day War with Egypt. Though Fast wrote over eighty books, including Spartacus, April Morning, and Freedom Road, his Immigrants novels remain some of his show more most personal and moving works. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author's estate. show lessTags
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Past of a saga. Have only read this one book (somehow started in the middle of the saga). Here's what I wrote about it in 1982: "Good story of San Francisco family. Would have been better if I had read the first 2 in the trilogy"
La figura dominante es Barbara Lavette, una mujer brillante y de talento. Aqui la vemos profundamente comprometida con el movimiento feminista y angustiada, a la espera de que su hijo Sam sea reclutado y enviado a Vietnam, con lo cual ella entrará de nuevo en la corriente de la Historia. Los Lavette se encuentran en el centro de muchos acontecimientos....
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Howard Fast was born on November 11, 1914 in Manhattan. At the age of 17, he sold his first story to Amazing Stories magazine. The next year he sold his first novel, Two Villages, to the Dial Press for a $100 advance. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 80 books, including Conceived in Liberty, The Unvanquished, Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom show more Road, April Morning, The Immigrants, Second Generation, The Establishment, The Legacy, and Greenwich. He won the Stalin International Peace Prize in 1953. A member of the Communist party, he served three months in a federal prison in 1950 for refusing to testify about his political activity. Blacklisted as a result, he founded his own publishing house, Blue Heron Press, which released his novel Spartacus in 1951. In 1957, he wrote a book about his political experiences entitled The Naked God. He also wrote a series of detective stories under the name E. V. Cunningham. He died on March 12, 2003 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Legacy
- Original publication date
- 1981
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
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- 813.52 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1900-1945
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- PS3511 .A784 .L4 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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