The Vagabonds

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Grand Central Publishing, 2007 M10 15 - 312 páginas
It doesn't matter, really, if what we inherit is money or debt, a set of cats or cutlery or a portrait of grandfather Aaron. What matters is the way we deal with what's been left behind. The Vagabonds From critically acclaimed author Nicholas Delbanco comes a novel about a family with a mysterious inheritance and a secret tie to history... Born and raised in Saratoga Springs, New York, the three Saperstone siblings have drifted apart and lead very separate lives. On Cape Cod, Joanna manages a B and B and a teenage daughter, feeling vulnerable and alone. In Ann Arbor, Claire flirts with becoming an interior decorator while coming to terms with a personal betrayal. And in Berkeley, David carves a niche as a Web designer-yet he yearns to be a painter. Suddenly, these middle-class and ordinary lives will come together again in an extraordinary way.

The death of their proud, spirited mother draws the Saperstones home to the New York resort town of Saratoga Springs. Gathered again in the family's ramshackle cottage, they discover a stunning legacy from 1916. Almost a century ago, the legendary "Vagabonds"-captains of industry Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, inventor Thomas Edison, and naturalist John Burroughs-came to this town during one of their road trip adventures. Here they encountered a beautiful young woman, whom they would burden with a scandalous secret and a dazzling windfall. Now, when decades later this inheritance comes to the three Saperstones, it will utterly transform them-not so much for the riches it brings, but for how it will reconfigure the past they share...and a future they had thought beyond their grasp. Arresting in its poignancy and indelibly original, The Vagabonds is a brilliant marriage of a truth stranger than fiction and a fiction filled with transcendent truth.

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Sección 2
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Sección 3
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Sección 4
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Sección 5
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Sección 6
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Sección 7
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Sección 8
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Sección 11
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Sección 12
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Sección 16
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Sección 17
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Sección 18
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Sección 9
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Sección 10
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Página 91 - I may be seized or possessed, or to which I may be in any manner entitled, or in which I may be interested at the time of my death...
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Página 90 - Pa., being of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, do make, publish and declare the following as...
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Página 90 - FIRST: I direct that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid as soon after my decease as conveniently can be done.
Página 37 - A son is a son till he gets him a wife. A daughter's a daughter the rest of her life.
Página 108 - I'm going away for to stay a little while, but I'm coming back, if I go ten thousand miles' — is in perfect, flowing Southern choral style.
Página xi - I give unto said executor full power to sell, mortgage, hypothecate, invest, reinvest, exchange, manage, control, and in any way use, and deal with any and all property of my estate during its...
Página 8 - Joanna asks herself, how did I get into this and how do I get out of it and where do I go next?

Acerca del autor (2007)

Nicholas Delbanco has published twenty-four books of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent novels are The Count of Concord and Spring and Fall; his most recent works of nonfiction are The Countess of Stanlein Restored and The Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life. As editor he has compiled the work of, among others, John Gardner and Bernard Malamud. Director of the Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan, he has served as Chair of the Fiction Panel for the National Book Awards, received a Guggenheim Fellowship and, twice, a National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship.

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