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The Rich Are Different - Hardcover

Howatch, Susan

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Synopsis

Dinah Slade is a young Englishwoman of immense vitality, great sensual power, and fierce ambition. When the handsome and powerful Paul Van Zale commits the imprudence of falling in love with her, her life and desires become intertwined with the fate of his great American Banking family. Among the new acquaintances she makes is Pauls wife, with whom, much to Dinahs shock and dismay, Paul manages an almost perfect marriage. The characters lives are intertwined with such mastery that listeners will be captivated with The Rich Are Different from the very first word until the astonishing climax.

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About the Author

Susan Howatch is a British novelist who has penned bestselling mysteries, family sagas, and other novels. Howatch was born in Surrey, England. She began writing as a teen and published her first book when she moved to the United States in 1964. Howatch found global success first with her five sagas and then with her novels about the Church of England in the twentieth century. She has now returned to live in Surrey.

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"Susan Howatch has surpassed herself. This is a mighty book."
ORLANDO TRIBUNE
Dinah Slade was young enough to be Paul Van Zale's daughter. But she didn't care. She was a very ambitious and beautiful woman with her eye on Van Zale's tremendous fortune. However, she hadn't counted on falling in love. Paul found himself attracted to Dinah in a way he had long forgotten. Her vitality, her sensuality, consumed him. With her he could forget his past, his wife, his enemies, his empire....

Reviews

Dinah Slade will do anything to keep her family home in Norwich, England, out of the hands of estate agents. But little does she know what twists of fortune will result from her dalliance with the great American banker, Paul Van Zale. Nadia May captures the essence of the six first-person narratives comprising the story, to the point of making recognizable each character's voice as related by the others. However, her portrayals of young children come across as contrived and squeaky. Furthermore, technical problems with the tracking of the MP3 version reviewed here, most likely corrected by now, marred this listener's audio experience. R.P.L. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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