Analiza nast?pstw zdrady ma??e?skiej w s?ynnej psychologiczno-obyczajowej powie?ci autora Pogody dla bogaczy. Lucy i Oliver Crown s? wzorowym szcz??liwym ma??e?stwem, dbaj?cym o dobro trzynastoletniego jedynaka, kt?remu staraj? si? zapewni? jak najlepsze warunki rekonwalescencji po ci??kiej chorobie. Podczas wakacji Lucy, zdominowana przez w?adczego m??a, nawi?zuje przelotny romans z korepetytorem syna. Nast?pstwa tego kroku odczuj? wszyscy, a rodzina Crown?w odt?d istnie? b?dzie tylko formalnie. Najbole?niej wszak?e dotknie to sam? Lucy…
Douglas Grimes, penniless ex-pilot, is waiting for the future to start living again. A fortune in cash by a dead body in New York City brings opportunity. Miles Fabian, debonair, jet-set con-man, shows the way.... Fast cars, fancy hotels, fancier woman. St Moritz, Paris, Florence, Rome Racehorses, blue movies, gambling, gold. Wild and woolly schemes, all wonderfully profitable. But the day of reckoning must dawn. Who will appear to claim the stolen money? And when?
Nova York, um hotel decadente, uma noite de inverno. No corredor do 6? andar, um cad?ver nu com um canudo de papel?o nas m?os… Assim come?am as aventuras de Douglas Grimes, o vigia noturno do Hotel St. Ausgustine, um piloto fracassado e sem ilus?es, que repentinamente se apodera de uma fortuna de 100 mil d?lares. Na fuga para a Europa, o dinheiro desaparece e Douglas inicia a ca?ada ao “ladr?o”. St. Moritz, Davos, Floren?a, Paris… no final do caminho Miles Fabian, um sofisticado playboy, refinado, culto e inescrupuloso, que se encarregar? de introduzir Douglas Grimes no ofuscante mundo dos milion?rios.
The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other novelist has since, the scope, confusion, and complexity of war.
