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Carregando... The Condor Passesde Shirley Ann Grau
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. 1   ChazziFrazz | Mar 12, 2017 |   The Old Man is the gangster and bootlegger who left home for adventure and fortune. He settled in New Orleans and built an empire. He has 2 daughters- one the perfect debutante, one a hell-raiser. He married his eldest daughter to a poor Cajun he mentored in his business to succeed him. The black butler is an interesting character who sees all and makes sure things go the way the Old Man wants. (  ) GeneHunter | Mar 13, 2016 | The Old Man is the gangster and bootlegger who left home for adventure and fortune. He settled in New Orleans and built an empire. He has 2 daughters- one the perfect debutante, one a hell-raiser. He married his eldest daughter to a poor Cajun he mentored in his business to succeed him. The black butler is an interesting character who sees all and makes sure things go the way the Old Man wants. ( ) GeneHunter | Mar 13, 2016 | The Old Man is the gangster and bootlegger who left home for adventure and fortune. He settled in New Orleans and built an empire. He has 2 daughters- one the perfect debutante, one a hell-raiser. He married his eldest daughter to a poor Cajun he mentored in his business to succeed him. The black butler is an interesting character who sees all and makes sure things go the way the Old Man wants. ( ) GeneHunter | Mar 13, 2016 |  ) alhermans | Feb 15, 2014 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
The ruthless accumulation, the spending, and the ultimate disposition of a great New Orleans fortune furnish the motive force in Shirley Ann Grau's brilliat novel of three American generations whose lives are caught up in and shaped by the currents of southern power. As his family hovers around him, heirs apparent, the ninety-five-year-old multimillionaire, Thomas Henry Oliver holds court. While leashing his torrential energies, it has suffocated his daughter Anna, who has retreated into religious fanaticism, and turned his younger daughter Margaret into a shrewd businesswoman. Robert, the poverty-stricken Cajun boy whom Oliver raised to be the son he never had, is possessed by the money. Of everyone exposed to Oliver and his gold, only the secretive black chauffeur, Stanley - the legendary condor of the title - appears to have held himself intact. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The story is told from various character's stories and voices. Starting with Stanley, the family servant. "Me? What am I? Nothing. The legs on which dinner comes to the table, the arms by which cocktails enter the living room, the hands that drive cars. I am the eyes that see nothing, the ears that don't hear." But he does see and hear and also knows the history of the Oliver family.
Thomas Henry Oliver, the patriarch of the family and referred to as the Old Man, is dying. He has lived a long, varied and money-making life. He is well off and is leaving his family well off. He comes from rough beginnings and through strong will and determination he has made it.
The book tells of the Old Man's life; marriage, his two daughters, the young boy - Robert Caillet - he takes in as the son he never had. It also tells of the driving force of money and how it affects each member of this family. A family that was close and at the same time at odds with each other.
Each character has a voice that tells of their place in the family and how they inter-relate. (