The sight of the stars
By: Belva Plain.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Irish American families -- Fiction; World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction; Department stores -- Fiction; Jewish families -- Fiction; Retail trade -- Fiction; Businessmen -- Fiction; Brothers -- Fiction; Texas -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish peddler father, Adam Arnring grows up in turn-of-the-century America, determined to shape his own destiny, and heads west to build what is to become one of the country's great retail companies, in a richly textured novel spanning three generations and the history of twentieth-century America.