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The sight of the stars / S

In 1907, a young New Jersey heads West to create his fortune, one that varies according to the vagaries of world politics and his own behaviour.

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  • "In 1907, a young New Jersey heads West to create his fortune, one that varies according to the vagaries of world politics and his own behaviour."@en
  • "Adam Arnring, son of an Irish immigrant and a Jewish peddler, heads West and lays the foundations of what will become one of the country's greatest retail companies. But along the way, love and war intervene, testing the ties that bind him to his brothers and to his trusting wife."@en
  • "Adam Arnring, son of an Irish immigrant and a Jewish peddler, heads West and lays the foundations of what will become one of the country's greatest retail companies. But along the way, love and war intervene, testing the ties that bind him to his brothers and to his trusting wife."
  • "Chronicles four generations of one family as they journey through years of love, loss, sacrifice, and betrayal. The head of the family is Adam Arnring, who travels West in 1907 with dreams of building a lasting business enterprise that will live on through his children and grandchildren."@en
  • "The son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish peddler father, Adam Arnring grows up in turn-of-the-century America, determined to shape his own destiny, and heads west to build what is to become one of the country's great retail companies, in a richly textured novel spanning three generations and the history of twentieth-century America."
  • "Son of Irish immigrant mother and Jewish peddler father heads west to build a retail company that will span generations."@en
  • "Etats-Unis, début du XXe siècle. Adam, jeune homme blessé par le secret de sa naissance, finit par faire des affaires florissantes et épouser la belle Emma. Leur existence pourrait être parfaite, si, en 1914, Jonathan, le demi-frère chéri d'Adam, n'était pas mort pour sa patrie dans les tranchées d'Europe."
  • "Adam Arnring, the son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish peddler father, leaves home in 1907 at the age of nineteen and travels to the American West where he is determined to shape his own destiny--creating what is to become one of the country's great retail companies."@en
  • "The son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish peddler father, Adam Arnring grows up in turn-of-the-century America determined to shape his own destiny and builds what is to become one of the country's great retail companies."
  • "Dressed in a brand-new suit, with one hundred and fifty dollars in his pocket, Adam Arnring says goodbye to his family and boards a train for the fabled West. The year is 1907. Adam is nineteen years old, a young man with stars in his eyes who has always dreamed of a future in the great open spaces of America. Now, far from his New Jersey home, he takes the first step toward attaining that dream, landing a job in a small department store in a booming Texas town. Adam is a man willing to take great risks to get what he wants. One is Emma, a woman who excites him beyond all measure. The other is to build a lasting business enterprise that will live on through his children and grandchildren. But just when Adam's dreams are within reach, fate intervenes. Tragedy strikes from the trenches of World War I, setting in motion a series of events that echo down through the years. And now, as another generation prepares to take its rightful place in the family's legendary empire, the tenuous threads of the Arnrings' past begin to unravel, revealing a shattering secret that reaches back nearly a century."
  • "The son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish peddler father, Adam Arnring grows up in turn-of-the-century America determined to shape his own destiny and builds what is to become one of the country's great retail companies."@en
  • "A novel that explores the bonds that sustain families--and the lies that can shatter them forever. Sweeping through the pivotal events of twentieth-century America, The Sight of the Stars chronicles four generations of one remarkable family as they journey through years of love, loss, sacrifice, and unimaginable betrayal. Dressed in a brand-new suit, with one hundred and fifty dollars in his pocket, Adam Arnring says good-bye to his family and boards a train for the fabled West. The year is 1907. Adam is nineteen years old, a young man with stars in his eyes who has always dreamed of a future in the great open spaces of America. Now, far from his New Jersey home, he takes the first step toward attaining that dream, landing a job in a small department store in a booming Texas town. Here he meets a woman who excites him beyond all measure. The exquisite, untouchable Emma Rothirsch lives in a world whose doors are firmly closed to him. But Adam is a man willing to take great risks to get what he wants. One is Emma. The other is to build a lasting business enterprise that will live on through his children and grandchildren. But just when Adam's dreams are within reach, fate intervenes. Tragedy strikes from the trenches of World War I, setting in motion a series of events that echo down through the years. The owner of a prospering department store and the head of a growing family, Adam succumbs to a moment of weakness that culminates in an unforgivable act of betrayal. And now, as another generation prepares to take its rightful place in the family's legendary empire, the tenuous threads of the Arnrings' past begin to unravel, revealing a shattering secret that reaches back nearly a century."
  • "Adam Arnrig's live through some of the most pivotal events of the 20th century."

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  • "Roman historique"
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  • "Roman familial"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
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  • "מראה הכוכבים"
  • "Tähtitaivas"@fi
  • "Il canto delle stelle"
  • "Il canto delle stelle"@it
  • "SIGHT OF THE STARS"
  • "The sight of the stars / S"@en
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  • "Les saisons du bonheur [ roman]"
  • "Himlen full av stjärnor"@sv
  • "The sight of the stars"
  • "The sight of the stars"@en
  • "Les saisons du bonheur"
  • "Wo die Sterne leuchten [Roman]"
  • "The Sight of the Stars"@en
  • "The Sight of the Stars"

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