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Title: Homeland by John Jakes ISBN: 0-451-19842-5 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely Amazing!
Comment: If this book is indeed out of print, it is a grave mistake on the part of the publisher; this novel is the rare masterpiece that makes one wish it were possible to reward six or seven stars instead of the paltry five.
A sprawling epic, "Homeland" follows a young Paul Crown as he begins his life anew in America after leaving Germany at age 14. Jakes has picked one of the most turbulent period in America's history, and he brings it to life with a vivdness and clarity that is rare. In addition, he had crafted a beautiful, moving, and satisfying love story that will win over even the most cynical readers. At a thousand pages it may seem long, but that's what people said when they heard that "Titanic" was over three hours.
Rating: 5
Summary: An enjoyable epic
Comment: Homeland is not a literary masterpiece, but it is a thoroughly engrossing look at turn-of-the-century America through the eyes and adventures of one family. Joe Crown is a German immigrant who has built a successful brewery. Son Joe Junior becomes passionately involved in union activity, while nephew Pauli, a street kid in Berlin, travels to America and finds his calling in moving pictures.
What I love about John Jakes is how he showcases the major issues, struggles and viewpoints of a time period through his characters, but still manages to give the characters depth and allow the reader to connect and relate to them. Once you read Homeland, you'll be anxious to pick up the sequel, American Dreams, to see what happens to the second generation of the Crowns!
Rating: 5
Summary: Epic Story Telling At Its Best
Comment: At a time when the world stood on the brink of a new century, America struggled to find its place upon the global stage, and huddled masses of immigrants streamed across its borders with little more than the clothing on their backs and a yearning to breath free. It was a time of innovation and invention, a birth of a new technological age, when labor collided violently with management; fathers with sons and America found itself in a war to set a country free.
"Homeland," John Jakes' epic tome is not set during the turbulent decade of 1990's (as one might expect after having read my introductory paragraph) but rather a full century earlier. Beginning where his "Kent Family Chronicles" left off in 1891, and ending in the first year of the twentieth century, 1901, Jakes begins a new cycle of novels with a new family, the Crowns of Chicago.
Jakes casts his protagonist, Pauli Kroner, as a young urchin, wandering the streets of Berlin. Orphaned, Pauli lives with his consumptive aunt, Charlotte, who, in a last act of selflessness sends Pauli to live with his uncle, Joseph Crown, who has amassed his fortune in the brewing trade of Chicago. But all is not happy in the Crown household. The forces of change at work in America are straining the family. Uncle Joe barely tolerates the progressive attitude of his wife Ilsa and has constant verbal clashes with his oldest son, Joe Jr., who has taken up sides with the socialist labor union movement, an issue which precipitates one final clash between father and son, after which Joe Jr. runs away and Pauli finds himself expelled from the household for aiding his cousin in his escape. Now known as Paul Crown he must eke out an existence in the streets of Chicago, and soon finds himself standing at the doorstep of the fledgling moving picture business as a camera operator and an eyewitness to history.
From the Pullman strike and the fairgrounds of Chicago's Colombian Exposition to the Cuban battlefields of the Spanish-American War John Jakes intricately weaves the historical events of the last decade of the nineteenth century throughout his novel and peppers it with historical Characters such as Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Addams, Clara Barton, Eugene Debs and Thomas Edison to name but a few.
John Jakes has earned the title "Godfather of the Historical Novel," and with "Homeland" the Crowns of Chicago can rightfully take their place beside the Kents of "The Kent Family Chronicles," the Hazard and Main families of the "North and South" trilogy, and the Chances of "California Gold."
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Title: California Gold by John Jakes ISBN: 0451203976 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Heaven and Hell (North and South Trilogy Series Volume 3) by John Jakes ISBN: 0451200837 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: On Secret Service by John Jakes ISBN: 0451204050 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Americans by John Jakes ISBN: 0515091332 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: January, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Rebels by John Jakes ISBN: 0515092061 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 03 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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