About “The Immigrants”

This family saga follows roughneck immigrants determined to make their way in America at the turn of the century. Rising from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Dan Lavette becomes head of a powerful shipping empire and joins the city's cultural elite, but a loveless marriage to the daughter of San Francisco's richest family and a scandalous love affair threaten to destroy what he has built.

Book details

First published
1977
Latest edition
1977 · ISBN 9780743400169