The Auerbach Will
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Secrets buried beneath generations of wealth and ambition have a way of refusing to stay hidden — and in The Auerbach Will, Stephen Birmingham tears back the gilded curtain on one of America's most powerful Jewish dynasties. The novel chronicles the life of Essie Auerbach, a young immigrant woman who transforms herself into the formidable matriarch of a vast retail empire, only for her children to discover, upon her death, that the carefully constructed legacy she leaves behind conceals a deeply personal — and explosive — secret buried in her past. Birmingham, celebrated for his authoritative and richly detailed portraits of America's elite social strata, brings the same incisive eye to this multigenerational saga that defined his landmark works Our Crowd and The Grandees. His prose navigates the tensions between old-world identity and new-world aspiration, between loyalty and betrayal, and between the public face of dynasty and the private truth of its founding. A masterwork of social fiction, The Auerbach Will leaves the reader questioning just how much of any great fortune is built on solid ground — and how much rests on secrets never meant to surface.
Author: Stephen Birmingham
Format: Hardback
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Secrets buried beneath generations of wealth and ambition have a way of refusing to stay hidden — and in The Auerbach Will, Stephen Birmingham tears back the gilded curtain on one of America's most powerful Jewish dynasties. The novel chronicles the life of Essie Auerbach, a young immigrant woman who transforms herself into the formidable matriarch of a vast retail empire, only for her children to discover, upon her death, that the carefully constructed legacy she leaves behind conceals a deeply personal — and explosive — secret buried in her past. Birmingham, celebrated for his authoritative and richly detailed portraits of America's elite social strata, brings the same incisive eye to this multigenerational saga that defined his landmark works Our Crowd and The Grandees. His prose navigates the tensions between old-world identity and new-world aspiration, between loyalty and betrayal, and between the public face of dynasty and the private truth of its founding. A masterwork of social fiction, The Auerbach Will leaves the reader questioning just how much of any great fortune is built on solid ground — and how much rests on secrets never meant to surface.