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Product Identifiers
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-100312313195
ISBN-139780312313197
eBay Product ID (ePID)109094203
Product Key Features
Book TitleSons of Fortune
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSagas, General
Publication Year2003
FeaturesRevised
GenreFiction
AuthorJeffrey Archer
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.6 in
Item Weight29.6 Oz
Item Length9.8 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-040614
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"A master at mixing power, politics, and profit into fiction."--Entertainment Weekly "Archer is a master entertainer"--Time magazine "Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages."--The Boston Globe "Cunning plots, silken style... Archer plays a cat-and-mouse game with the reader"--The New York Times "A storyteller in the class of Alexandre Dumas... Unsurpassed in skill... making the reader wonder intensely what will happen next."--The Washington Post "One of the top ten storytellers in the world"--Los Angeles Times, "A master at mixing power, politics, and profit into fiction."-- Entertainment Weekly "Archer is a master entertainer"-- Time magazine "Archer plots with skill, and keeps you turning the pages."-- The Boston Globe "Cunning plots, silken style... Archer plays a cat-and-mouse game with the reader"-- The New York Times "A storyteller in the class of Alexandre Dumas... Unsurpassed in skill... making the reader wonder intensely what will happen next."-- The Washington Post "One of the top ten storytellers in the world"-- Los Angeles Times
Dewey Decimal823/.914
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisSet in Greenwich, Connecticut, in the early 1950s, "Sons of Fortune" is the story of a set of twins separated at birth by a well-meaning nurse. The two brothers live separate lives, and how they find each other mirrors the chronicle of a nation in transition., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author Jeffrey Archer-returns with a powerful tale of twins separated by fate and reunited by destiny.In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, a set of twins is parted at birth-not by accident. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman, while his twin brother begins his days as Fletcher Davenport, son of a millionaire and his society wife.During the 1950s and 1960s, the two brothers grow up apart, following similar paths that take them in different directions. Nat leaves college at the University of Connecticut to serve in Vietnam, then finishes school, earns his MBA, and becomes a successful currency dealer. Fletcher, meanwhile, graduates from Yale University with a bachelor's and a law degree, going on to distinguish himself as a criminal defense lawyer.At various times in their lives, both men are confronted with challenges and obstacles, tragedy and betrayal, loss and hardship, before they both decide to run for governor, unaware they are brothers... .In the tradition of Jeffrey Archer's most popular books, Sons of Fortune is as much a chronicle of a nation in transition as it is the story of the making of these two men -and how they eventually discover the truth-and its tragic consequences., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author Jeffrey Archer-returns with a powerful tale of twins separated by fate and reunited by destiny. In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, a set of twins is parted at birth-not by accident. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman, while his twin brother begins his days as Fletcher Davenport, son of a millionaire and his society wife. During the 1950s and 1960s, the two brothers grow up apart, following similar paths that take them in different directions. Nat leaves college at the University of Connecticut to serve in Vietnam, then finishes school, earns his MBA, and becomes a successful currency dealer. Fletcher, meanwhile, graduates from Yale University with a bachelor's and a law degree, going on to distinguish himself as a criminal defense lawyer. At various times in their lives, both men are confronted with challenges and obstacles, tragedy and betrayal, loss and hardship, before they both decide to run for governor, unaware they are brothers.... In the tradition of Jeffrey Archer's most popular books, Sons of Fortune is as much a chronicle of a nation in transition as it is the story of the making of these two men -and how they eventually discover the truth-and its tragic consequences.
LC Classification NumberPR6051.R285S665 2003
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