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Rich Man, Poor Man by Irwin Shaw

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Author Biography

Name: Irwin Shaw
Birth Date: 27 February 1913
Death Date: 16 May 1984

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Biography of Irwin Shaw
5893 words, approx. 19.6 pages
Irwin Shaw is one of the most frequently anthologized twentieth-century American short-story writers. Over the years, such Shaw stories as "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses", "The Eighty-Yard Run", "Act of Faith", and "Main Currents of American Thought"...
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Biography of Irwin Shaw
3934 words, approx. 13.1 pages
Irwin Shaw was born in New York City, the son of William Shaw, a salesman of hat trimmings, and Rose Tompkins Shaw. When he was very young the family moved to the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, where he attended local schools and developed a lifelon...
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Biography of Irwin Shaw
2271 words, approx. 7.6 pages
Irwin Shaw was born in New York City, the son of William Shaw, a salesman of hat trimmings, and Rose Tompkins Shaw. When he was very young the family moved to the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, where he attended local schools and developed a lifelon...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Rich Man, Poor Man Information
593 words, approx. 2 pages
Rich Man, Poor Man is a novel written by Irwin Shaw. In 1976 it was adapted into a highly-rated 1976 television miniseries spawning a trend on American TV that lasted for the next fifteen years. Originally published as a short story in Playboy Magazine,...


News and Journals
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The Economist (US)
Rich man, poor man.
04/14/2007: 1,450 words, approx. 5 pages
Too many Rocinhas Efforts to reduce poverty and inequality are bearing some fruit BACABEIRA--a low-slung settlement where the main street is a federal highway and most of the rest are dirt tracks--is not a rich place. More than half its population...
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The Washington Post
Rich Man, Poor Man
11/21/1999: 782 words, approx. 3 pages
COMFORT AND JOY By Jim Grimsley Algonquin. 291 pp. $21.95 Coming to grips with being gay, coming out to one's parents, finding true love against societal and familial odds, dealing with HIV -- Comfort and Joy, Jim Grimsley's new novel, manages...
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Investor's Business Daily
Rich Man, Poor Man
7/10/2007: 475 words, approx. 2 pages
Campaign '08: Presidential candidate John Edwards is set to begin his poverty tour. But he might have more credibility on the issue if he took a poverty vow instead.A week after rock stars and miscellaneous other narcissists hectored the world about global warming, the Democrat...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by W. G. Rogers
311 words, approx. 1 pages
The two sons and one daughter of Axel Jordache, a small town-on-the-Hudson baker, form the triangle on which ["Rich Man, Poor Man"]—as on an armature—is unshakably constructed…. Tom starts out as a ne'er-do-well, Rudolph as the priggish mother's bright hope, and Gretchen as the renegade. A vast, shifting circle of acquaintances, friends, lovers, wives and husbands springs up around them. The directions they take and the goals they actually reach differ drasti...


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