- Paperback: 608 pages
- Publisher: Pan Books; New Ed edition (27 April 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330308114
- ISBN-13: 978-0330308113
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,649,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A novel of love and intrigue focusing on a fascinating young woman and an American Rockefeller-style family. Korda is also the author of "Charmed Lives", "Queenie" and "Worldly Goods".
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Format:Paperback
Sixty-four-year-old Arthur Bannerman had status, power, and a half billion dollars of family money. Then, one night, in a New York City brownstone, he died while making love to a 24 year old woman. The girl was an unknown, a pretty mid-westerner, named Alexa Walden -- and Bannerman's secret bride.
Now tainted with scandal and pitted against the powerful and privileged world of the New York rich, this innocent young woman must fight the entire Bannerman dynasty: ELEANOR, the iron-willed matriarch who knows all the family secrets; ROBERT, the charming, ambitious son who can use both sex and violence against Alexa; and CECILIA, Arthur's daughter, haunted by a legacy of sin and greed. Far from Arthur's original plans, all have their own dreams and schemes. . . as Alexa discovers for herself the burdens -- and dangers -- of the fortune.
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NEWSDAY:"An enthralling yarn, a first-rate page-turner. One of the masters of popular fiction."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: "Prime entertainment."
Now tainted with scandal and pitted against the powerful and privileged world of the New York rich, this innocent young woman must fight the entire Bannerman dynasty: ELEANOR, the iron-willed matriarch who knows all the family secrets; ROBERT, the charming, ambitious son who can use both sex and violence against Alexa; and CECILIA, Arthur's daughter, haunted by a legacy of sin and greed. Far from Arthur's original plans, all have their own dreams and schemes. . . as Alexa discovers for herself the burdens -- and dangers -- of the fortune.
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NEWSDAY:"An enthralling yarn, a first-rate page-turner. One of the masters of popular fiction."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: "Prime entertainment."
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
More Fun, Because Less Real
1 Sep 1999
Format:Paperback
Korda's "Queenie" and "Curtain" were interesting, though too somber and ultimately tiresome, because each was based (until the last third) rather too closely on real, and always unhappy, actors and producers. "The Fortune" is meant to remind you of Nelson Rockefeller's family, but Korda veers off so quickly into a polished TV-movie romance plot -- young, poor, brave farm girl loves old, super-rich, lonely city guy, and both have dark family secrets -- that it's laughs and sighs all the way.
My mind-movie casting was Catherine Zeta-Jones and Mitch Ryan. The plum role is, as usual in this genre, the Matriarch -- maybe Tippi Hedren.
In any case, a fine heroine and a good read.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
An excellent book revealing the unimaginable
24 Aug 1998
Format:Paperback
Wow! Korda has outdone himself once again with fiction. This novels shows us how presumptuous one can be with more than half a billion dollars-- meaning bribing the police force to discard files and erase evidence of murder files. As a young woman, Korda exemplifies the will power of a young woman like myself who must over come the pressures of fame, power, and most of all, her distasteful in-laws.
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