From the author of THE YOUNG LIONS and TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN comes the greatest novel to appear in post-war America. Truly global In the scope of its humanity and passion, RICH MAN, POOR MAN is the story of a generation at war with the values of its past, the hypocrisy and tension of its present and the terrifying inevitability of a shipwrecked future.

Rudolph Is the romantic, who learns to live with doubt and make a fortune at 30. His brother Tom Is the brute, whose acid-scarred American dream Is coloured with boiling blood. Their sister, Gretchen, seduced by the small town's leading citizen, Is the beauty in urgent search of a man - the only man - who can save her from herself.

'By the end of it we know America from coast to coast"
— Daily Telegraph