Publication

1998 - Arte Público Press, Houston, Tex, Texas

Language

English

Word Count

62,500 words, Guess

Page Count

250 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing2261874
  • Goodreads3377640

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3568.U397 G5 1998

Description

Giuseppe Rocco, an Italian immigrant, raises himself from nothing to immense wealth and political influence in northern California through his self-made scavenger business and a series of shrewd land investments. His money and power allow him to possess a bride of high birth and breeding, and through their loveless marriage Giuseppe Rocco becomes the patriarch of a dynasty of three sons: Joey, Johnny, and Matthew. Everyone is stunned when eighteen-year-old Joey abruptly runs off to Reno to wed Sally Martinez, a penniless grocery-store checkout clerk. But as Rocco gradually recognizes in his tough young daughter-in-law a steely determination equal to his own, he begins to see her as a means to further his empire. The outcome is not what readers have come to expect from countless Hollywood and television versions of the old Horatio Alger myth.

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