by Irwin Shaw · Plaza & Janés Editores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401300479
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«Hombre rico, hombre pobre» is the novel by Irwin Shaw, published in 1977 by Plaza & Janés Editores in hardcover (685 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows the Jordaches, a family of German immigrants in the United States, over several decades. Ambition, broken loyalties and tensions between brothers run through a story that examines the price of success and the contradictions of the American dream. This title is also known for the television series based on the work.
The original title is Rich Man, Poor Man; the novel was originally published in 1970 and this edition is from 1977.
For readers of family sagas and novels that span several decades of life in the United States.
Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best known for two of his novels: The Young Lions (1948), about the fate of three soldiers during World War II, which was made into a film of the same name starring Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift, and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), about the fate of two brothers and a sister in the post-World War II decades, which in 1976 was made into a popular miniseries starring Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, and Susan Blakely.
