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The Rich Are Different
The Rich Are Different
The Rich Are Different
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The Rich Are Different

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The New York Times bestselling novel about a powerful Wall Street family in the 1920s and the illicit affair that threatens their empire.

 During the Roaring Twenties, Paul Van Zale is the undisputed king of the financial industry, an influential man of great wealth, unparalleled power, enormous ego, and insatiable appetites. He’s also exactly what Dinah Slade is looking for: a millionaire susceptible to seduction who can rescue her endangered ancestral estate and make her dream of creating her own business empire come true.
 
All it takes is one look at the intoxicating young Englishwoman—“delivered” in secret to his London office—and all thoughts of his wife and other mistresses are instantly banished from Van Zale’s mind. But their ensuing love affair has repercussions that will shake the foundations of the banking tycoon’s Wall Street firm, especially when his dynamic, impulsive right-hand man also falls victim to Dinah’s vibrant sensuality.
 
Perhaps graver still is her effect on Van Zale’s family, among whom greed, rage, and jealousy are prime motivating factors. And as the boom of the twenties gives way to the despair of the Great Depression, everything threatens to come tumbling down in an avalanche of treachery and murder.
 
Inspired by the love triangle involving Caesar, Cleopatra, and Mark Antony, the author of Sins of the Fathers and The Wheel of Fortune—known for writing “impressive fiction imbued with moral questions”—presents an unforgettable saga of an American dynasty in the tumultuous years between the two world wars (Publishers Weekly).
 
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Howatch including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
 
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Release dateOct 9, 2012
ISBN9781453263433
The Rich Are Different
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Susan Howatch

Susan Howatch was born in Surrey in 1940. After taking a degree in law she emigrated to America where she married, had a daughter and embarked on her career as a writer. When she eventually left the states, she lived in the Republic of Ireland for four years before returning to England. She spent time in Salisbury – the inspiration for her Starbridge sequence of novels – and now lives in London.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Dinah, an ambitious but impoverished young woman, propositions Paul, a rich American banker, in the hope of saving her family property. The book takes place in both the UK and USA, revolving around high finance and business. Fast-moving, tough characters, and well-woven plots with a fairly satisfying ending.

    When I first read this in 2000 I concluded that it was not really my kind of book. In a sense that's still true - the banking and high finance life of the early 20th century isn't my scene.

    But what a very well-written book it is; re-reading it, I was just as gripped as I was the first time, and also more appreciative of the characterisation, and the clever way the author has used the historical stories of Caesar and Mark Anthony as the basis for this amazing novel.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Howatch's novels at first seem like generic pulp, but within the first 50 pages the words pull you into a living story filled with so much more than generic pulp. The story is told from the viewpoint of six overlapping characters. She gives a glimpse of men and women driven by greed, pride, love, lust, and the need to be liked. If you know your history, pay close attention to the details because I believe she has compiled a fabulous 1920s version of Caesar and Cleopatra.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Susan Howatch is one of my favorite historical fiction authors along with Sharon Kay Penman and M.M. Kaye. I've read Penmarric, Cashelmara, and yes, The Rich Are Different several times along with her other works. I'm always amazed at this book by how well the stories of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Mark Antony, and Octavian Augustus fit in with the post-WWI era of boom and depression. This time the reread had special resonance with the failures on Wall Street today.None of the characters are especially heroic but they do stay true to their historical natures, despite the setting being investment banks for Rome and an English manor house for Eygpt. The book has different POVs, mainly Paul (Julius Caesar), Dinah (Cleopatra), Steve (Mark Antony), and Cornelius (Octavian), with one other being Sylvia (Calpurnia), Paul's wife. They each provide a unique perspective to the story and each other. There is also exhaustive, well-researched detail on world events from the Roaring Twenties to the beginning of WWII. The Rich Are Different is historical fiction at its best, and a book well-worth rereading.

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