| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780393068023 | | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company | | Publish Date: 1/25/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 208067440 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.5H x 6.25L x 1.5T | | Pages: 416 |
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| | | This brilliant novel of new money and old manners introduces the Cole brothers, charismatic country boys with more money than God. The quiet center of the story is Mike Teague, the Coles'' advisor, who knows all the family''s secrets.
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The central characters of Inman Majors's third novel are the Cole brothers of Glennville, Tennessee, and they are aptly named. Like coal, their hearts are black and dirty, but under tremendous pressure, they produce great riches. Roland Cole wants to become governor, while his brother J.T. has a more modest goal--to stage a World's Fair in their tiny hometown. One of these ventures succeeds, the other fails, but through it all the brothers uphold their utter lack of moral decency by bribing their enemies, cheating on their wives, and stealing from their friends. Like their namesake substance, inevitably, they must burn.
| Praise| "The novel's wry, often ironic narrative voice can be both barbed and tender..." - Roy Hoffman 01/25/2009 "[T]his expansive, smoothly flowing novel offers a rich look at family dynamics and overweening ambition." - Joanne Wilkinson 12/01/2008 "There are moments in THE MILLIONAIRES when the particular tenor of a time and place comes across strongly, and the novel succeeds at providing a peephole into a specific world." - Chloe Schama 02/08/2009 |
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