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The Family Hightower (Hardcover)
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The Family Hightower (Hardcover)
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List price R563
Loot Price R512
Discovery Miles 5 120
You Save R51 (9%)
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In 1968 two boys are born into a large family, both named for their
grandfather, Peter Henry Hightower. One boy--Peter--grows up in
Africa and ends up a journalist in Granada. The
other--Petey--becomes a minor criminal, first in Cleveland and then
in Kiev. In 1995, Petey runs afoul of his associates and
disappears. But the criminals, bent on revenge, track down the
wrong cousin, and the Peter in Granada finds himself on the run. He
bounces from one family member to the next, piecing together his
cousin's involvement in international crime while learning the
truth about his family's complicated history. Along the way the
original Peter Henry Hightower's story is revealed, until it
catches up with that of his children, revealing how Peter and Petey
have been living in their grandfather's shadow all along.
The novel takes a look at capitalism and organized crime in the
20th century, the legend of the self-made man, and what money can
do to people. Like Jeffrey Eugenides' "Middlesex, The Family
Hightower" stretches across both generations and continents,
bearing the weight of family secrets and the inevitable personal
toll they take on loved ones despite our best intentions.
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