Rich Man, Poor Man Irwin Shaw Orion, 02 Brothers 640 pages 2 Reviews RICH MAN, POOR MAN tells the story of Rudolph, Gretchen and Tom, the children of an embittered, impoverished German baker, growing up in a small town near New York City as World War II is drawing to a close These three are seen over a period of twentyfour years in Irwin Shaw (1913–1984) was an acclaimed, awardwinning author who grew up in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934 His first play, Bury the Dead (1936), has become an antiwar classicHe went on to write several more plays, more than a dozen screenplays, two works of nonfiction, dozens of short stories (for which he won two O HenryI actually read both books (Rich Man, Poor Man and Beggarman, Thief) in hard back many years ago before the 2 books were made into a TV miniseries I totally enjoyed the books (far better than the miniseries) and when I saw them in Ebooks I jumped
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