Publisher's Synopsis
Belva Plain's twenty previous novels have revealed her insight into the human heart and relations among people - the ties between husband and wife, parent and child, son and brother. Her characters are molded by their upbringing but eventually assert their own individuality. In THE SIGHT OF THE STARS, Plain shows her insight once again. Adam Arnring's mother was an Irish immigrant, his father a Jewish peddler. But, like so many other turn-of-the-century Americans, Adam grows up determined to shape his own destiny. Handsome and skilled, he heads West and lays the foundations of what will become one of the country's greatest retail companies. But along the way, love and war intervene, testing the ties that bind him to his brothers and to his trusting wife.
