Shades of Fortune

Name: Shades of Fortune
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Stephen Birmingham
ISBN: 9781441807953

Author: Stephen Birmingham

Narrator: Roger Ellis

Unabridged: 15 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 11/20/2009

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Mireille "Mimi" Myerson is the elegant, charming and ambitious president of Miray Corporation. As Mimi attempts to achieve her dreams for the company, family jealousies, dangerous deceptions and marital pitfalls threaten to compromise her goals. Battling forces from within and without, Mimi struggles to make difficult choices to determine her own - and the company's - destiny.

About Stephen Birmingham

Stephen Birmingham (1929-2015) was an American author of more than thirty books. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he graduated from Williams College in 1953 and taught writing at the University of Cincinnati. Birmingham's work focuses on the upper class in America. He's written about the African American elite in Certain People and prominent Jewish society in Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York, The Grandees: The Story of America's Sephardic Elite, and The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews. His work also encompasses several novels including The Auerbach Will, The LeBaron Secret, Shades of Fortune, and The Rothman Scandal, and other non-fiction titles such as California Rich, The Grandes Dames, and Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Betty on June 08, 2020

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I always enjoy books about generations of families plus with this book I learned a lot about the cosmetic industry/......more

Goodreads review by Anne on September 15, 2020

I finally managed to finish this, it was extremely slow. I've as also noticed a reoccurring theme throughout all of these New York novels that becomes trite when you're reading them back to back. I'm glad I'm done with them.......more