![]() Meanwhile Abel comes into his inheritance, learning he's his father's son even as he loses everything to the Russians in the wake of World War I and emigrating to the United States with only a few dollars coming off the boat. We watch self-contained William shrewdly build on his fortune, making his own money buying and selling matchbox cars to his classmates, building a stockmarket portfolio while still a schoolboy, and struggling against his feckless stepfather. Both prove themselves at first both extraordinary and sympathetic. We follow their parallel but contrasting from boyhood. William Kane Lowell, a Boston Brahmin and Abel Rosnovski, the illegitimate son of a Polish baron. ![]() The story follows two men born on the same day in 1906. One of those sagas where you enjoy a panorama of history and watching two powerful characters clashing. ![]() It was clear from the start that this wasn't great literature by any means-but for the first part of around 200 pages I found it gripping. ![]()
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