from Publisher's Weekly Review, dated May 23, 1980This is a significant, thoroughly enjoyable novel about three concurrent generations of Willigs, a Jewish family that settles in Florida ... in 1919. The story unravels through the voice of George Sloate, a young man from Ohio who throws himself into the chaos of the Miami land boom of 1925 ... Many pipe dreams are conceived and crushed, many fortunes made and squandered, as George Sloate relates the events of 35 years. This extremely capable, likable narrator finds it impossible to keep his distance from the vulnerable, very real Willigs. The reader will have the same experience.
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