by Irwin Shaw · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401499913
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«Hombre rico, hombre pobre» is the novel by American writer Irwin Shaw, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (774 pages, in Spanish).
The novel tells the story of the Jordache brothers, Rudy and Tom, from the postwar period to the 1960s. Rudy pursues success at any price, while Tom flees a violent past. The contrast between the two brothers reflects American society of the time and the American dream, amid love, family, and loss.
The Rich Man, Poor Man series begins with this novel. The work was originally published in 1970. This edition belongs to the Los JET collection from Plaza & Janés.
For readers of family sagas and historical fiction with an American backdrop.
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.
