by Irwin Shaw · Plaza & Janes S.A.,Spain · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401490460
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«Hombre rico, hombre pobre» is the novel by Irwin Shaw, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (774 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the Jordache family, of humble origins, and especially the brothers Rudolph and Thomas, sons of a German immigrant. Through their lives it portrays postwar American society, with social ascent, love and ambition on one side, and betrayal and redemption on the other.
First installment of the «Rich Man, Poor Man» saga; the novel was originally published in 1970 and gave rise to a television miniseries in the seventies.
Recommended for readers of family sagas and twentieth-century American narrative, with a historical and social backdrop.
Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best known for two of his novels: The Young Lions (1948), about the fate of three soldiers during World War II, which was made into a film of the same name starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), about the fate of two brothers and a sister in the post-World War II decades, which in 1976 was made into a popular miniseries starring Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, and Susan Blakely.
