Les Bâtisseurs
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by Howard Fast
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Grâce à son solide métier d'écrivain qui sait allier un certain style littéraire à des sujets populaires d'origine historique (##Spartacus##), l'auteur réussit une vaste fresque dont le titre américain dévoile l'intrigue. Il s'agit en effet de l'odyssée épique d'une famille française qui émigre en Amérique en 1888. Le drame social et familial évoqué couvre les années 1906-1929 et nous livre un documentaire romanesque fort appréciable.
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Fiction, fantasy, historical, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, Immigrants, Immigrants in fiction, Italian Americans in fiction, Italian Americans, French Americans, French Americans in fiction, Irish Americans, Chinese Americans, Chinese Americans in fiction, Immigrant families, Immigrant families in fiction, Irish Americans in fiction, Large type books, California, fiction, San francisco (calif.), fiction, Italian americans, fiction, Family, Shipping, Irish americans, fiction, Chinese americans, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, romance, generalTimes
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In this sweeping journey of love and fortune, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the family saga of roughneck immigrants determined to make their way in America at the turn of the century.
Quick to ascend from the tragic depths of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Dan Lavette becomes the head of a powerful shipping empire and establishes himself among the city's cultural elite. But when he finds himself caught in a loveless marriage to the daughter of San Francisco's richest family, a scandalous love affair threatens to destroy the empire Dan has built for himself.
The first novel of a compelling family saga, The Immigrants is fast-paced, emotional historical fiction that captures the wide range of relationships across Immigrant America during the tumultuous defining events of the early twentieth century.
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