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Rent The Gods of Newport
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Format: Mass Market Paperback, Abridged-CD
Publisher: Signet Book
Published: Oct 2007
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $9.99
Pages: 480
Synopsis
In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island-with its giant marble mansions, lavish dinner parties, and vicious social climbing- is a summer playground of the very rich. Into this rarefied world comes infamous railroad mogul and robber baron Sam Driver. He wants his beautiful daughter to have the best Newport has to offer-even if that means breaking all the rules...
Reviews
Ive read most of Jakes historical novels, including all of the Centennial series. The Gods of Newport is the absolute worst I quit reading after about 60 pages. There is little or no plot, mostly just a lot of millionaire name dropping.