IT WAS A SMALL PENNSYLVANIA TOWN AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. A WORLD OF CORRUPTION AND GREED, WHERE SECRETS WERE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE WAS FOR INNOCENTS. THIS WAS THE WORLD OF JASON GARRITY. A MAN OF PASSION AND PRINCIPLE. A MAN WHO HAD PULLED HIMSELF UP FROM THE SLUMS AND NOW HAD EVERTHING HE THOUGHT HE WANTED. WHAT HE WANTED MOST WAS BEAUTIFUL PATRICIA MULLIGAN, DAUGHTER OF THE TOWN'S WEALTHIEST MAN. JASON FANTASIZED ABOUT HER, LONGED FOR HER FROM AFAR--NEVER DREAMING THAT HIS GREAT BEAUTY WOULD SOON BE HIS. FOR PATRICIA HAD FALLEN IN LOVE WITH JASON'S BEST FRIEND. AND EVEN NOW WAS BEARING HIS CHILD. BUT HE LOVED ANOTHER....THUS IT BEGAN. THIS TALE OF TANGLED PASSIONS AND THE BRUTAL COST OF WEALTH AND POWER.
In the finests Taylor Caldwell style. A multi-family drama that takes the reader into early twentieth century in a small-sized, small-minded Pennsylvania town. The hero is flawed but in the best manner. The reader just must stick with him and rally to his cause. Lots of lovely Irish courage and plenty of Dutch courage. I loved it.
By an 11 year old reader.
This book offers a sense of what it was like back in the 1900s. The story, a marvelous written book, shares the feelings and hardships of a boy, who in this ploit eventulally shares it as a man. This tale of a stong Irish man stuggiling to suceed is meant to be big. It lives up to any readers expectations in my opinion.
This book offers a sense of what it was like back in the 1900s. The story, a marvelous written book, shares the feelings and hardships of a boy, who in this ploit eventulally shares it as a man. This tale of a stong Irish man stuggiling to suceed is meant to be big. It lives up to any readers expectations in my opinion.
5 months on the new york times best seller list. from the back cover:
It was a small Pennsylvania town at the turn of the century. A world of corruption and greed, where secrets were public knowledge and love was for innocents.
This was the world of Jason Garrity. A man of passion and principle. A man who had pulled himself up from the slums and now had everything he thought he wanted.
What he wanted most was beautiful Patricia Mulligan, daughter of the town's wealthiest man. Jason longed for her from afar--never dreaming that this great beauty would soon be his.
For Patricia had fallen in love with Jason's best friend, and even now was bearing his child. But he loved another...
Thus it began. This tale of tangled passions and the brutal cost of wealth and power.
It was a small Pennsylvania town at the turn of the century. A world of corruption and greed, where secrets were public knowledge and love was for innocents.
This was the world of Jason Garrity. A man of passion and principle. A man who had pulled himself up from the slums and now had everything he thought he wanted.
What he wanted most was beautiful Patricia Mulligan, daughter of the town's wealthiest man. Jason longed for her from afar--never dreaming that this great beauty would soon be his.
For Patricia had fallen in love with Jason's best friend, and even now was bearing his child. But he loved another...
Thus it began. This tale of tangled passions and the brutal cost of wealth and power.
The number 1 bestseller
5 months on the New York Times Best Seller List.
This tale of rangled passions and the brutal cost of wealth and power.
5 months on the New York Times Best Seller List.
This tale of rangled passions and the brutal cost of wealth and power.
It was a small Pennsylvania town at the turn of the century. A world of corruption and greed, where secrets were public knowledge and olve was for innocents.
This ws the world of Jason Garrity. A man of passion and principle. A man who had pulled himself up from the slums and now had everything he thought he wanted.
What he wanted most ws beautiful Patricia Mullingan, daughter of the town's wealthiest man. Jason fantasied about her, longed for her from afar-never ddreaming that this great beauty would soon be his.
This ws the world of Jason Garrity. A man of passion and principle. A man who had pulled himself up from the slums and now had everything he thought he wanted.
What he wanted most ws beautiful Patricia Mullingan, daughter of the town's wealthiest man. Jason fantasied about her, longed for her from afar-never ddreaming that this great beauty would soon be his.
It was a small Pennsylvania town at the turn of the century. A world of corruption and greed, where secrets were public knowledge and love was for innocents.
This is the world of Jason Garrity. A man of passion and principle. A man who had pulled himself up from the slums and now had everything he thought he wanted.
What he wanted most was beautiful Patricia Mulligan, daughter of the town's wealthiest man. Jason fantasied about her, longed for her from afar--never dreaming that this great beauty would soon be his.
For Patricia had fallen in love with Jason's best friwnd. And even now was bearing his child. But he loved another...
This is the world of Jason Garrity. A man of passion and principle. A man who had pulled himself up from the slums and now had everything he thought he wanted.
What he wanted most was beautiful Patricia Mulligan, daughter of the town's wealthiest man. Jason fantasied about her, longed for her from afar--never dreaming that this great beauty would soon be his.
For Patricia had fallen in love with Jason's best friwnd. And even now was bearing his child. But he loved another...
