The gods of Newport
Subtitle: a novel
By: John Jakes
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780525949763
Subjects: Upper class -- Fiction; Newport (R.I.) -- Fiction; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Determined to secure entry into the elite social circles of late nineteenth-century Rhode Island, Sam Driver enlists the help of a pair of social gadflies but finds his efforts complicated by his daughter's romance with an impoverished young Irishman.