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The Immigrant's Daughter
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The Immigrant's Daughter (Lavette Family #5)
by
Howard Fast
The fifth installment of Fast’s bestselling Immigrantsseries, continuing the story of one of his most beloved characters, Barbara Lavette
Howard Fast’s immensely popular Immigrants saga spanned six novels and more than a century of the Lavette family history. The series was considered one of the crowning achievements of his long career. This New York Times bestseller is the...more
Howard Fast’s immensely popular Immigrants saga spanned six novels and more than a century of the Lavette family history. The series was considered one of the crowning achievements of his long career. This New York Times bestseller is the...more
ebook, 326 pages
Published
December 27th 2011
by Open Road
(first published 1985)
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The last of The Immigrant's series, this book left me hanging with not a very cohesive ending, but I have subsequently learned there is another "conclusion" written years later. Although I am deeply involved with all the characters, this book left me feeling a bit depressed; too many allusions to aging, getting old, feeling useless. Although these realities are confronting Barbara Lavette, I feel that age is not looked upon as "drying up" , as she feels even in the setting of the 1980's. I've co...more
Sep 26, 2009
Graceann
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4 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
fans of series, fans of historical fiction
Shelves:
generational-saga,
series
In what was originally planned as the conclusion to the Lavette Saga, Barbara Lavette runs for public office and learns some interesting things about herself and her family. THE IMMIGRANT'S DAUGHTER was intended to conclude this sprawling family series, but Howard Fast came back several years later with AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN.
Barbara finds herself growing ever older and more confused, as the people she has loved for most of her life pass on, and her son becomes more of a stranger to her. She loses...more
Barbara finds herself growing ever older and more confused, as the people she has loved for most of her life pass on, and her son becomes more of a stranger to her. She loses...more
This book is actually a five series book starting with the Immigrant By Howard Frost. I was given these books by a patient of my husbands to read. I really did'nt think I would like it but I was pleasantly surprised. I read one after another. The Immigrant, Second Generation, The Establishment, The Legacy, The immigrants Daughter. People loved Barbra Levette (The immigrants Daughter) so much he wrote a book about her called An Independent Woman. If you find the time read these books they are ama...more
This was the 5th book in the Lavette series. I found it was a little too political and hanging on all the events of the last four books. Barbara Lavette runs for Congress, still looking for love, and still fighting for her causes. This was my least favorite books of this series.
Couldn't put this series down once I started reading it. I was given the first three books in this series as a gift and was hooked as soon as I started reading them. I could not wait for the 4th book of this series to be published!
The first few books in this series were good, then they just got depressing and preachy about war.
loved the whole series
This whole series about the early history of San Francisco is very entertaining and fascinating....a must read
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May 06, 2013
Tea Jovanović
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5 of 5 stars
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Shelves:
read-for-pleasure
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Howard Fast (1914–2003) was one of the most prolific American writers of the twentieth century. He was a bestselling author of more than eighty works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and screenplays. The son of immigrants, Fast grew up in New York City and published his first novel upon finishing high school in 1933. In 1950, his refusal to provide the United States Congress with a list of possible...more
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