From Library Journal
Law student Randy McCalla, great-grandson of Rowan McCalla, one-time associate of the fabulous industrialist Andrew Carnegie, is disturbed to realize at his father's death that he never really knew or loved the man. He sets out to find out why and to research the decline of the family fortune. Four generations of McCallas, waited upon by a bevy of servants, had lived in a compound of close-knit Victorian homes fairly isolated from their neighbors except for occasional forays into Pittsburgh society. Presbyterian tenets and Scottish parsimony are woven into the story as an old scandal is uncovered. Friend, former president of Swarthmore college, turns a neat phrase in his tale of a Pittsburgh dynasty. But the narrative in this first novel is so disjointed and episodic that it is difficult to keep the characters straight and to follow the story line. For large fiction collections. Marion Hanscom, SUNY at Binghamton Lib.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
