So Many Partings by Cathy Cash Spellman (1983, Hardcover)

So Many Partings
by Cathy Cash Spellman
Publisher:  Delacorte Press
Copyright 1983
Book Club Edition

Ireland, 1874.  In a small whitewashed cottage on the grounds of a great estate, a baby boy is born.  His name is Tom Dalton.  He is the son of an Irish peasant and her aristocrat lover.

And so begins the story of a family whose past is deeply rooted in the turbulence of Irish history but who thrive and flourish in the America of the twentieth century.  From the poverty of the Irish immigrant to the wealth of the self-made man; from the sorrows of a young boy, deserted by fortune and family, to the triumph of a patriarch capable of outwitting Fat itself -- this is the story of Thomas Dalton and the women who touch his life.

Driven from his ancestral home in Westmeath by his father's vindictive family, young Tom Dalton leaves Ireland and makes his way to America.  Befriended by the founders of the Longshoremen's Union, groomed by one of Tammany's most powerful political bosses, Tom fights his way to a place in the glittering mansions of New York's Fifth Avenue.  In a landscape filled with the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless, the victors and the victims, Tom Dalton's dreams lead him to success.  It is only when Tom has made peace with himself that he is able to return to Ireland to reclaim his rightful legacy for future generations.

So Many Partings is about love and betrayal, about a man and the women who shape him:  the bewildered mother who abandoned him to save herself, the gentle wife who had defied her father to marry the man she loves, the shrewd madam who pledges her loyal friendship as well as her love, and finally the high-spirited granddaughter who inherits a greater legacy than wealth.

A novel about triumph and heartbreak, set against the richness of Irish-American history, So Many Partings is about a passionate family and their partings and reunions.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages may be tanning and discolored from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Dust cover and flaps may be tanning from age and show a bit of edge wear and light creases.

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