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17%OFFJoanna Hershon - A Dual Inheritance - 9780349004204 - V9780349004204
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A Dual Inheritance

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Description for A Dual Inheritance Paperback. A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing novel of passion, friendship, betrayal and class - and their reverberations across generations. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 35. Weight in Grams: 426.

Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard. Ed is far removed from Hugh's privileged upbringing as a Boston Brahmin, yet his drive and ambition outpace Hugh's ambivalence about his own life. These two young men form an unlikely friendship, bolstered by a fierce shared desire to transcend their circumstances. But in just a few short years, not only do their paths diverge-one rising on Wall Street, the other becoming a kind of global humanitarian-but their friendship ends abruptly, with only one of them understanding why.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Blackfriars
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349004204
SKU
V9780349004204
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About Joanna Hershon
Joanna Hershon is the author of four novels: Swimming, The Outside of August, The German Bride and A Dual Inheritance. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, One Story, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the literary anthologies Brooklyn Was Mine andFreud's Blind Spot and Berlin Stories - a multimedia journal for NPR Worldwide. She has taught in the Creative ... Read more

Reviews for A Dual Inheritance
A Dual Inheritance is a big, captivating, multigenerational sweep of a romance, ranging from Africa to China to New England's blue-blooded enclaves. With deftness and swagger, Joanna Hershon spins the intertwining of two Harvard men's lives into a searching exploration of class and destiny in late twentieth-century America
Jennifer Egan Hershon writes with great confidence and clarity. You feel ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for A Dual Inheritance


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