The setting is Europe in the tense period between the two world wars. It is the bittersweet story of the wealthy Hack family whose pride and sins were redeemed by their passionate humanity. Rubin Hack jilts his intended and marries a beautiful mysterious woman whom his family detests. But it is t...
C1980: Fabulous generational saga. This review says it all, really – “"An intriguing rags-to-riches tale of an immigrant Jewish family in America... Freeman has demonstrated her narrative gifts in previous works and proves them once again in this four-generation novel with its varied characters a...
It was said numerous times in the book, Chavala Landau is a remarkable woman. And she was. Her determination, efficiency, and sheer will to survive was definitely inspiring; her strength combined with her street-smart no-nonsense attitude gave her the ability to achieve her dreams; the reader can...
another nice family saga, read years ago and found while cleaning the garage. What always surprises me when I fall upon a book written in the 1980's is the amount of cliches you find. Page after page, the heroes and the villains offer all he traits you are expecting. The bad ones hate Jewish and ...
Lily had beauty, fortune and a wealthy fiance. Yet on the night of her wedding she threw it all away...for the love of another man. Harry Kohle was everything her parents despised- with nothing to offer but a driving ambition to write. And his undivided passion-at least for a while...From the hig...
Come Pour the Wine, by Cynthia Freeman, was published in 1980, when it was a bestseller. I was intrigued by the summary, but now I’m not quite sure why. A girl from the Midwest becomes a high-fashion model becomes a suburban housewife. Not exactly titillating, that third step.Janet Stevens should...
Set agains the enchanting backdrop of San Francisco... The storybook romance of two obsessive people trapped in a fairytale of their own making.Catherine Antoinette Frances Posata Rossi--fabulously beautiful, enormously rich, totally southern--and spoiled. She would fight for what was hers, even ...
And Sara Hack was busy in London. Daily, troop trains rolled in and out of Victoria Station … returning the sick and wounded. She was a Red Cross volunteer. She served biscuits and tea in all kinds of weather, snow … sleet …Aching with fatigue, still she served until she could no longer stand on ...
She was sleeping poorly, blaming her awakening at absurdly early hours on the sunlight that streamed into the bedroom despite the closed drapes. Inwardly she understood her insomnia and restlessness. She couldn’t erase from her mind the knowledge that David—lonely and yearning for a family—might ...
But a change had come over her that made her responsiveness to Dominic’s lovemaking strained. The spontaneity was no longer the same. Not that she loved him less, but her self-esteem had been so crushed. One evening at dinner, he said, “Let’s go away, darling, I think the change would be so good ...