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Rich Man, Poor Man

  • Irwin Shaw

3.33

3 ratings

A novel of two brothers from the end of World War II to the 1960's. The story of Rudolph, Gretchen, and Thomas Jordache, children of an embittered German immigrant. Nurtured on traditional views of American success, each pursues the illusion of happiness in his own way, determined to achieve his "birthright."

Genres

  • Family
  • Fiction
  • German Americans
  • Social conditions
  • Families
  • Domestic fiction
  • American fiction
  • Fiction, family life, general
  • United states, fiction
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About the author

  • Irwin Shaw

    27 February 1913 - 16 May 1984

    3.82

    11 ratings · 138 works

Editions

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    186.-200. Tausend

    Rowohlt

    1984-09

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    New ed.

    New English Library

    1977

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    Delacorte Press

    1970

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    Delacorte Press

    1970

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Feniks

2000

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    Dell Publishing Company, Inc.

    1976

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    AST

    2000

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    Weidenfeld & Nicolson

    1970

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    Orion

    2002

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    New English Library

    1972

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    Rowohlt

    1983