Jeffrey Archer
Paperback | Pages: 608 pages Rating: 3.87 | 17207 Users | 583 Reviews
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| Title | : | Sons of Fortune |
| Author | : | Jeffrey Archer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 608 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2003 by Pan (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller |
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It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives. Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer returns with a powerful tale of twins separated by fate and reunited by destiny. In the late 1940's in Hartford, Connecticut a set of twins is parted at birth. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman. But his twin brother is to begin his days as Fletcher Andrew Davenport, the only son of a multi-millionaire and his society wife. During the years that follow, the two brothers grow up unaware of each other's existence. Nat leaves college at the University of Connecticut to serve in Vietnam. He returns a war hero, finishes school and becomes a successful banker. Fletcher, meanwhile, has graduated from Yale University and distinguishes himself as a criminal defense lawyer before he is elected to the Senate. Even when Nat and Fletcher fall in love with the same girl they still don't meet. They continue on their separate paths until one has to defend the other for a murder he did not commit. But the final confrontation comes when Nat and Fletcher are selected to stand against each other for governor of the state. In the tradition of Jeffrey Archer's most popular books, Sons of Fortune is as much a chronicle of a nation in transition as it is the story of two remarkable men and how, eventually, they come to discover the truth - and its extraordinary consequences...Specify Books Concering Sons of Fortune
| Original Title: | Sons of Fortune |
| ISBN: | 033041335X (ISBN13: 9780330413350) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Nat Cartwright, Fletcher Davenport |
| Setting: | United States of America Hartford, Connecticut(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.87 From 17207 Users | 583 ReviewsCriticism About Books Sons of Fortune
"My mother taught me two languages until the age of nine and by then I was just about ready to be mainstreamed into the Storrs' school system. And I was most fortunate to have a maths teacher whose hobby was statistics, and who was also fascinated by the role the computer might play in the future. How big is your firm's computer Mr. Cartwright?" : Su Ling. " About the size of this room" " The next generation of students will work with computers no larger than the lids of their desks, and theGood read. Long book, but I really enjoyed it. Archer is one of my favorite authors
Boring! Couldn't get interested in the dull characters and the obvious, plodding story where 2 parallel lives unfailingly continue down similar paths unaware of the other. Typical twin separated at birth plot. I rarely put a book down once I start, but I predicted every page before I read it and realized it just was never going to give me a reason to turn another page.
This book was an absolute entertainer from start to end! I may change the rating later but as of now i want to give it full stars.Now I have changed it to 4..I usually tend to read two books at a time especially if one of the books is more than 500 pages reason being somewhere in the mid i may get bored of the pace or the characters or may be i just need a break from that book but i was totally wrong when i started this one. From the moment i started till the end it didnt even cross my mind to
Read on blog!! This book like all other Jeffrey Archer books is great. The start of the book reminded me of his book The Fourth Estate (A book review that I have already done) but as you go on reading you will realise that it's nothing like that book at all. The story is set in the time between the 1940's and the end of the twentieth century. They have a common rival Elliot, who in my opinion is a total jerk (which is obviously what the author wanted us to feel). There is intense rivalry at
It was an okay read. Knowing Jeffrey Archer's work, I expected the book to be filled with suspense and action. However, it was more like a realistic drama. The storyline was fast paced and easy to read, but it was lacking a climax.. the developments and twists in the story were minimal; it was such a disappointment.Fletcher and Nat were separated at birth, where Fletcher ended up with the Davenport's, a well established family. Nat, on the other hand, was raised by his birth parents, the
Jeffrey Archer must have been off his meds, or on them beyond the recommended dose for a year.(He is usually great.) The story is packed full of English aristocratic snobbery, but transferred to America. Clumsily transferred. Standard, rich twins separated at birth. One raised poorer. They both whoop ass in slightly different ways, but of course they are both swinging for the fence. I wonder if he was on a Connecticut country club tour with elderly Yale and boarding school alumni the entire time
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