Books with author howard fast

Howard Fast’s bestselling coming-of-age novel about one boy’s introduction to the horrors of war amid the brutal first battle of the American Revolution. On April 19, 1775, musket shots ring out over Lexington, Massachusetts. As the sun rises over the battlefield, fifteen-year-old Adam Cooper stands among the outmatched patriots, facing a line of British troops. Determined to defend his home and prove his worth to his disapproving father, Cooper is about to embark on the most significant day of his life. The Battle of Lexington and Concord will be the starting point of the American Revolution—and when Cooper becomes a man. Sweeping in scope and masterful in execution, April Morning is a classic of American literature and an unforgettable story of one community’s fateful struggle for freedom.

Here, in a marvellously gripping and rewarding novel, is the story of the tycoons who created and built the motion picture industry- not in Hollywood but in New York City at the turn of the century. In particular, it is the story of Max Britsky- born in the East Side ghetto of New York, penniless- and of his struggle to survive and to conquer the world he had entered. It is also the story of the woman he married, of love and hate, of fraud and financial piracy and infighting, of loyalty and betrayal. In other words, it is just the kind of tale you would expect from one of the master story tellers of our time. It is not a book to be put down easily. Once you enter the world of New York at the turn of the century, the world of Rectors and Delmonico's and Boss Murphy of Tammany Hall and Monk Eastman, that king of hoodlums, you will partake of a wonderfully rewarding feast. And you will welcome Max Britsky into the world of literary immortals. Like Dan Lavette of San Francisco, the hero of Howard Fast's The Immigrants, Max Britsky is a man for all seasons, and you will live with him, laugh with him, and weep with him.