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Rich Man, Poor Man is a 1969 novel by Irwin Shaw. It is the last of the novels of Shaw's middle period before he began to concentrate, in his last works such as Evening In Byzantium, Nightwork, Bread Upon The Waters and Acceptable Losses on the inevitability of impending death. The title is taken from the nursery rhyme "Tinker, Tailor".
Rich Man, Poor Man was the first book to ever be made into this new concept called a "mini-series." As a result of this mini-series, jr. high students, ages 11-14 picked up the novel and started reading. Along with Rich Man, Poor Man, the books Jaws and the Godfather came out so every school student had at least of these books.
Rich Man, Poor Man is a 1969 novel by Irwin Shaw. It is the last of the novels of Shaw's middle period before he began to concentrate, in his last works such as Evening In Byzantium, Nightwork, Bread Upon The Waters, and Acceptable Losses, on the inevitability of impending death. The title is taken from the nursery rhyme "Tinker, Tailor".
Book 1-2. Rich Man, Poor Man / Beggarman, Thief. by Irwin Shaw. 4.48 · 237 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2013 · 5 editions. Two books in one: Irwin Shaw's bestselling Rich Ma…. Want to Read. Rate it: Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggarman, Thief, and Rich Man, Poor Man / Beggarman, Thief.
Books. Rich Man, Poor Man: A Novel. Irwin Shaw. Open Road Media, Feb 26, 2013 - Fiction - 666 pages. This New York Times–bestselling saga of two brothers in postwar America, the basis for the classic miniseries, is “a book you can’t put down” (The New York Times). Siblings Rudy, Tom, and Gretchen Jordache grow up in a small town on the ...
Rich Man, Poor Man: A Novel. DIVIrwin Shaw (1913–1984) was an acclaimed, award-winning author who grew up in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. His first play, Bury the Dead (1936), has become an anti-war classic. He went on to write several more plays, more than a dozen screenplays, two works of nonfiction, dozens of ...
Rich Man, Poor Man. Irwin Shaw. Delacorte Press, 1970 - Fiction - 723 pages. Siblings Rudy, Tom, and Gretchen Jordache grow up in a small town on the Hudson River. They?re in their teens in the 1940s, too young to go to war but marked by it nevertheless.
