The Immigrant's Daughter

by Howard Fast

Book Overview

In this triumphant conclusion to the Lavette saga, Howard Fast brings the story up to the present, to the fourth generation. As Dan Lavette dominated The Immigrants, so his eldest child, Barbara, is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395393817
• ISBN13: 9780395393819
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.

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The Lavettes-Torn by divorce, dissension, and warring passions, the Lavettes face their most painful truths, mirroring a nation divided in the aftermath of Vietnam. The loves that seemed inviolate, the unquestioned loyalties, are struck down in an era of broken promises and lost ideas. Barbara Lavette -Trapped between her own heroic past, her family's needs, and the shadow of her own encroaching age, Barbara is at the crossroads. Embracing the challenge of a congressional race, going out to face war - and love - in El Salvador, she must become the inspriation of her embattled family, the microcosm that is her ultimate testing ground for courage and strength.