SINOPSIS DEL LIBRO

A Philadelphia boy watches a lobster eat a squid in a tank and concludes that he now understands how the world is arranged He goes into brokerage into street railways into the city treasurers accounts and into the wife of a man whose help he needs Dreiser built Cowperwood on the real streetcar magnate Charles Yerkes and researched him like a reporter The prose is heavy and the accounting is exact...Seguir leyendo