Silk Legacy.Silk Legacy Richard Brawer Privately Published 1202 Lawrence Avenue Lawrence Avenue is a major east-west thoroughfare in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is divided into east and west portions by Yonge Street, the dividing point of east-west streets in Toronto. , Ocean, NJ 07712 1589614690 $19.99 www.silklegacy.com Written by Richard Brawer, whose ancestors and cousins have run a thriving silk industry, Silk Legacy is a historical novel set in the early twentieth century about the collision of business and human interests, women's struggle for the right to vote, and a housewife treated like little more than a glorified glo·ri·fy tr.v. glo·ri·fied, glo·ri·fy·ing, glo·ri·fies 1. To give glory, honor, or high praise to; exalt. 2. servant by her husband. Nineteen-year-old Sarah Singer feels betrayed by the man who charmed her into marriage and now pays her scarcely any respect, and defies him to join women's groups and participate in suffrage suffrage: see ballot; election; franchise; voting; woman suffrage. rallies. Yet when a strike shuts down the town's 300 silk mills, she can no longer keep a tenuous balance between activism and wifely duty--she must choose sides between her Capitalist husband and his dshing Socialist brother, a union leader who is also her best friend's husband. Passion, greed, arrogance, the struggle for equality, romance, and euphoria An interpreted programming language developed in 1993 by Robert Craig at Rapid Deployment Software that is noted for its execution speed, flexibility and simplicity. It can simulate any programming method including object-oriented constructs. abound in this immersive saga of the tribulations of yesteryear yes·ter·year n. 1. The year before the present year. 2. Time past; yore. yes . |
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