Lucy Crown

A New York Times bestseller from an author with "a natural gift for storytelling" A mother and son are reunited years after a shattering betrayal (The New York Times). She passes through the Paris restaurant, alone, unbent, and unbroken. Lucy Crown has lived with heartbreak for long enough that it no longer shows on her face, and she's not afraid to dine in solitude. But then she sees him across the bar, full of liquor and life, looking far happier than he did the last time she saw him two decades before: Tony, her son--the one man she loved more than any other, the one she nearly destroyed. Twenty years earlier, in 1937, Lucy was an unhappily married suburban housewife, and Tony was so frail his parents were forced to hire a companion for him. When the companion caught Lucy's eye, he awoke in her a feeling of passion she thought had died long ago--leading to an act of indiscretion during a vacation in Vermont that would upend their family, and take half a lifetime to repair. From the author of such classics as Rich Man, Poor Man and The Young Lions--an O. Henry Award winner who "always writes immensely readable books"--Lucy Crown is an unflinching look at the emotional reality of infidelity, heartbreak, and divorce that remains a testament to the power of forgiveness (The New York Times). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate.

About the Author :
Irwin 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 short stories (for which he won two O. Henry awards), and twelve novels, including The Young Lions (1948) and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970). William Goldman, author of Temple of Gold and Marathon Man, says of Shaw: He is one of the great storytellers and a pleasure to read. For more about Shaw s life and work, visit www.irwinshaw.org. "

Review :
"Lucy Crown is probably the best of Irwin Shaw's [first] three novels. [It] has the virtue of simplicity, of concentrated focus." --Lewis Gannett"That Shaw has made the pattern of disintegration of three potentially good people credible is witness to his gift as a storyteller." --Kirkus Reviews "[Irwin Shaw] is a smooth professional craftsman with a natural gift for storytelling and an easy skill with dialogue. He always writes immensely readable books and can be counted on not to bore his readers." --The New York Times