Rich man, poor man - Irwin Shaw

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 colored 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.