An act of infidelity tears apart the members of a Depression-era family Friends always envied the Crown marriage, but for Lucy, something was missing. During a family trip to Vermont in the summer of 1937, her husband, Oliver, is called away. When Lucy falls into an affair with a younger man, her son, Tony, walks in on them. The betrayal rips apart the family, ultimately estranging Lucy from her son. Twenty years later, the two run into each other at a bar in Paris, and Lucy realizes that she may have found her best chance at absolution. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Irwin Shaw including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate.
"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."
Kirkus Reviews
"Lucy Crown is probably the best of Irwin Shaw's [first] three novels. [It] has the virtue of simplicity, of concentrated focus."
