The Legacy

Name: The Legacy
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Howard Fast
ISBN: 9781423372257

Author: Howard Fast

Narrator: Sandra Burr

Unabridged: 5 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 08/08/2008

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

The Legacy continues the saga of the Lavette family begun in these bestsellers: The Immigrants, Second Generation, and The Establishment. This fourth-in-series story takes place during the turbulent 1960s as Barbara Lavette and her family are embroiled in the issues of that decade: Civil Rights, Israel's Six-Day War, the Nixon years, Vietnam and riots in the street. Barbara Lavette develops into a powerful, strong willed, capable person while the children of the third generation of Lavettes take their place in society and stand by their own ideals and values. The Legacy will capture listeners with its involving story and leave them wanting more!

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bodosika

Though I have not read the others, it was the fourth book in the sequence and can be read as"a stand alone" It was unputdownable.......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin

The fourth novel in the Lavette Family series covers a span of ten years (1958-1968). The lives and experiences of the Lavette family continues along, intertwined with the Levy and Cassala families. The focus shifts to the grandchildren, now grown and just starting to branch out on their own althoug......more

Goodreads review by Dora

Παρολες τις επαναλήψεις, λέει σχεδόν όλη την ιστορία του Ντάνι και της Τζιν ξανά κ ξανά, έχει πριν το τέλος ένα αντιπολεμικό κομμάτι παρα πολύ καλό !! Κάνει μια σκληρή αυτοκριτική των ομοεθνων του, του πολέμου του Βιετνάμ, των κυρίαρχων πλανηταρχων. Κρίμα που δεν βρήκα τα υπόλοιπα 2 μέρη που έγραψε π......more

Goodreads review by George

ENTERTAINING SOAP-OPERA / HISTORICAL FICTION. “There has to be an end someday to this dividing the world up into races and religions and nations, all of them with a license to murder anyone who is different…” (kl. 5979) Howard Fast is a master at writing compelling historical fiction / soap opera. His......more