A chronicle of episodes covering more than 100 years. These events culminate in the year 2000 when New York becomes the golden city people have always wanted it to be.
"Set in...present-day Paris...seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour--a ma?tre at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust--must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present"--Dust jacket.
Freddy, the Prince of Wales, overeducated and lacking charisma, is shipped off to America along with his beautiful, dimwitted wife, Fredericka, where they must travel incognito and without funds on a mission to reclaim the "colonies" for England.
Collects all three novellas in the Swan Lake trilogy which examine the power of love and devotion over greed and suppression, including "Swan Lake," "A City in Winter," and "The Veil of Snows.".
Centers around the affair of a middle-aged Irish burglar and a young girl named Beverly Penn, who is dying of consumption in a mansion on the Upper West Side of New York City.
When the King and his army disappear, the queen fears the Usurper will return to plunge her city into darkness, but her faithful general masterminds a strategy to keep the city safe, against great odds.
A chronicle of episodes covering more than 100 years. These events culminate in the year 2000 when New York becomes the golden city people have always wanted it to be.
