The Wheel of Fortune I-II.

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This is Susan Howatch's finest, most ambitious and most absorbing növel to date. Like her previous best sellers -Penmarric, Cashelmara, The Rich Are Different and Sins of the Fathers-The Wheel of Fortune is the story of a family. At its center is Oxmoon, the family manor of the Qodwins, which for four generations, from the glittering years before the First World War to the present time, obsesses and haunts every member of the family turning brother against brother, son against father, its changing fortunes inexorably linked to theirs, its decline mirroring the family's descent from Edwardian prosperity and social position to the straitened circumstances of middle-class life. For each member of the Qodwin family Oxmoon remains a prize, a challenge, a dangerous obsession, for its rnemories, its beauties and the power and wealth its possession conveys. When at last a Qodwin heir restores it to its former grandeur, he does so at the cost of a crime that eventually leads him to his own... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This is Susan Howatch's finest, most ambitious and most absorbing növel to date. Like her previous best sellers -Penmarric, Cashelmara, The Rich Are Different and Sins of the Fathers-The Wheel of Fortune is the story of a family. At its center is Oxmoon, the family manor of the Qodwins, which for four generations, from the glittering years before the First World War to the present time, obsesses and haunts every member of the family turning brother against brother, son against father, its changing fortunes inexorably linked to theirs, its decline mirroring the family's descent from Edwardian prosperity and social position to the straitened circumstances of middle-class life. For each member of the Qodwin family Oxmoon remains a prize, a challenge, a dangerous obsession, for its rnemories, its beauties and the power and wealth its possession conveys. When at last a Qodwin heir restores it to its former grandeur, he does so at the cost of a crime that eventually leads him to his own mysterious death-a mystery that will be resolved only when a later Qodwin sets out to seize Oxmoon for himself (continued on back flap)
(continued from front flap) With a rich cast of characters, an ear for dialogue that places her in the first ránk of novelists and a sense of drama that has made her a worldwide best seller, Susan Howatch has written a family saga that tears us out of our own lives and places us, as readers, firmly and forever in the lives of the Godwins-and unwilling to emerge from their struggles, joys and tragedies until the very last page. Susan Howatch was born in England, obtained a degree in law at London University and went to America in 1964. For eleven years she lived in and around New York City, but in 1975 she returned to Europe, where she has lived since then. She is the author of Penmarric (1971), Cashelmara (1974), The Rich Are Different (1977) and Sins ofthe Fathers (1980). Vissza