Legacy: A NovelIn this epic novel spanning three generations of the Schneider family, Leonard Schonberg unfolds the lives of three unforgettable women: Hannah, Pearl, and Sarah. After emigrating from Europe in 1913, Hannah and her father, Isaac, overcome poverty and tragedy in New York. They make a new life for themselves in the rough and tumble mining town of Butte, Montana. Introduced to the pleasures of love by Madame Claire, the owner of a brothel, Hannah blossoms into maturity, but the bright future that awaits her dissolves when she is victimized by rape. Pearl, the mixed-race child borne by Hannah, grows up in an orphanage knowing nothing about her parents. She falls in love with Nathan Rubin, a young premedical student, but their plans for the future are irrevocably altered when Nathan is seriously wounded during World War II. Peal, tormented by her abandonment as an infant, finds it difficult to bond with her own daughter, Sarah. Sarah, attending college in New York City on a scholarship, has her plans for a literary career derailed when she marries Roger Delaney, an advertising executive. She becomes progressively more unhappy with her job and marriage. Matters come to a head when Sarah learns she is pregnant and receives word that her mother is dying. Sarah returns to Montana and discovers the secret of her mother? |
Contents
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Section 2 | 45 |
Section 3 | 56 |
Section 4 | 77 |
Section 5 | 96 |
Section 6 | 101 |
Section 7 | 109 |
Section 8 | 129 |
Section 25 | 265 |
Section 26 | 266 |
Section 27 | 272 |
Section 28 | 274 |
Section 29 | 278 |
Section 30 | 279 |
Section 31 | 287 |
Section 32 | 288 |
Section 9 | 140 |
Section 10 | 150 |
Section 11 | 151 |
Section 12 | 156 |
Section 13 | 179 |
Section 14 | 183 |
Section 15 | 191 |
Section 16 | 205 |
Section 17 | 212 |
Section 18 | 237 |
Section 19 | 240 |
Section 20 | 244 |
Section 21 | 249 |
Section 22 | 250 |
Section 23 | 251 |
Section 24 | 258 |
Section 33 | 295 |
Section 34 | 300 |
Section 35 | 301 |
Section 36 | 302 |
Section 37 | 308 |
Section 38 | 310 |
Section 39 | 314 |
Section 40 | 322 |
Section 41 | 325 |
Section 42 | 326 |
Section 43 | 328 |
Section 44 | 330 |
Section 45 | 331 |
Section 46 | 336 |
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Page 9 - Think, oh, think, of being happy for a year — for a day! How brilliantly blue the sky would be; how swiftly and joyously would the green rivers run; how madly, merrily triumphant the four winds of heaven would sweep round the corners of the fair earth!