Harvest

From Publishers Weekly
With the rich threads of Evergreen , The Golden Cup and Tapestry , skillful storyteller Plain continues to weave her eventful saga of the Werners and their extended clan as they reaffirm their Jewish heritage during the stormy 1960s. Dark, sensitive Iris, daughter of the glowing, russet-haired Anna (by urbane banker Paul Werner--unbeknownst to Iris) is married to wealthy, improvident Dr. Theo Stern, whose European glamour excites other women. Iris's jealousy goads her to play at her own romance with a sinister partner. Her four children are growing up, but rebel Steve balks at his bar mitzvah, already anticipating the anarchist/bomb expert he will be at college, radicalized by cynical professor Tim Powers, whom he doesn't know is his distant cousin. When Paul's wife dies and his mistress leaves to fulfill her mission as a doctor in Israel, Paul hovers protectively over Iris's troubled family. A violent quarrel between Iris and Theo erupts into near tragedy, and Paul takes action. Plain's prose is never better than workmanlike, but the narrative moves quickly as her doughty characters surmount their alloted share of adversity. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections; Reader's Digest Condensed Book. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Review
"With the rich threads of Evergreen, The Golden Cup, andTapestry, skillful storyteller Plain continues to weave her eventful saga of the Werners." -- Publishers Weekly


Review
"With the rich threads of Evergreen, The Golden Cup, andTapestry, skillful storyteller Plain continues to weave her eventful saga of the Werners." -- Publishers Weekly


From the Publisher
An unforgettable novel yielding the fruit of hidden passions, corrosive secrets, and tragic rebellion that simultaneously shape and echo the fortunes of three generations.

ANNOTATION

The internationally acclaimed author of Tapestry continues the magnificent Werner Family saga with this tumultuous and breathtaking novel. In the difficult times of the 1960s, a university student unwittingly precipitates a chain of events that spirals the Werner family downward with no forseeable end.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

An unforgettable novel yielding the fruit of hidden passions, corrosive secrets, and tragic rebellion that simultaneously shape and echo the fortunes of three generations.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly