Word: korda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when talents as varied as Pulitzer-Prizewinning Novelist Edna Ferber, Poet Marianne Moore and Experimentalist Gertrude Stein were among the decade's most prominent literary celebrities. But they worked in an era less obsessed by the politics of gender. Today, says Simon & Schuster Editor in Chief Michael Korda, "women writers are being noticed more because more attention is being paid to women as a group...
FICTION: The Anatolian, Elia Kazan Family Trade, James Carroll Famous Last Words, Timothy Find ley ∙The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, Peter Benchley The Woods, David Plante ∙Worldly Goods, Michael Korda...
FICTION: The Collected Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ Family Trade, James Carroll ∙ Forsaking All Others, Jimmy Breslin ∙ The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, Peter Benchley ∙ The South Florida Book of the Dead, Robert Merkin ∙ Worldly Goods, Michael Korda...
Worldly Goods, Michael Korda...
...Korda's hero commands respect, if not affection. He is a cunning, low-profile zillionaire named Paul Foster, who, as Paul Grünwald, member of one of prewar Hungary's richest families, survived the Holocaust. Grünwalds were not supposed to go to slave-labor camps. The family's Jewish bloodlines had been thinned by generations of intermarriage and Roman Catholic conversion. As leading bankers and industrialists, they had powerful friends, including Göring, through whom they sold uranium ore for Hitler's atomic-bomb research. But in the end the family...