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. Uillie Ames was mivebut a real knockout ' when she met Moss Coleman at the Philadelphia Navy Yard during World War II. Within a few months she-' was pregnant and married to him. It was a marriage that brought Billie-and her mother, Agnes-across the
country to A ustin, to a 250,000-acre spread called ' ¦ ., Sunbridqe, and into the world of the
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. Ihis supremely entertaining novel is the story of four generations of the Colemansof Texas- ¦ of Moss and his father, Seth, obsessed with power, . with airplanes, and with building a dynasty of Seth's
wife Jessica, who molded herself into the kind of ' ; woman Seth wanted of Moss and Billie's children, who ' have trouble living up to the family's expectations ' ^ of their grandchildren, who just mightjulffffail of their dreams. It is the story, too, of Agnes Ames, who takus^ to wealth and power like she was bomLo it, and of Tirnd
Kingsley, Moss's best friend, who^ecretly loves Billic. Most of all, it is the story...
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Fülszöveg
. Uillie Ames was mivebut a real knockout ' when she met Moss Coleman at the Philadelphia Navy Yard during World War II. Within a few months she-' was pregnant and married to him. It was a marriage that brought Billie-and her mother, Agnes-across the
country to A ustin, to a 250,000-acre spread called ' ¦ ., Sunbridqe, and into the world of the
PJt
r^jT
. Ihis supremely entertaining novel is the story of four generations of the Colemansof Texas- ¦ of Moss and his father, Seth, obsessed with power, . with airplanes, and with building a dynasty of Seth's
wife Jessica, who molded herself into the kind of ' ; woman Seth wanted of Moss and Billie's children, who ' have trouble living up to the family's expectations ' ^ of their grandchildren, who just mightjulffffail of their dreams. It is the story, too, of Agnes Ames, who takus^ to wealth and power like she was bomLo it, and of Tirnd
Kingsley, Moss's best friend, who^ecretly loves Billic. Most of all, it is the story ofBillie herself and her struggle :¦¦ . to become her own pers^ in a world dominated by Cblemans
"A big, rich book in every way, mJi in dmmLierizatkm, rich in plot, and rich in emotum. I thmkFem Michmsis^ has struck oil withMiis one." — . ^ PATRICIA MAWHtWS ' j
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