Author

Publication

1977 - Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

97,250 words, Guess

Page Count

389 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archiveimmigrants0000fast
  • ISBN-100395256992
  • ISBN-139780395256992
  • LibraryThing511761
  • Goodreads1821708
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  • Library of Congress Control Number77009317
  • OCLC Control Number3016972
  • Better World Books9780395256992
  • Open LibraryOL4542422M

Classifications

  • DDC813/.5/2
  • LCCPZ3.F265 Im
  • LCCPS3511.A784 Im
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  • LCCPZ3.F265Im

Description

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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  • The immigrantsHoughton Mifflin1977-01-01
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