Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Rich Boy
Rich Boy | Sharon Pomerantz
1 post | 1 to read
Robert Vishniak is the favored son of Oxford Circle, a working-class Jewish neighborhood in 1970s Philadelphia. Handsome and clever, Robert glides into the cloistered universities of New England, where scions of unimaginable wealth and influence stand shoulder to shoulder with scholarship paupers like himself who wash dishes for book money. The doors that open there lead Robert to the highest circles of Manhattan society during the heart of the Reagan boom where everything Robert has learned about women, through seduction and heartbreak, pays off. For a brief moment, he has it all-but the world in which he finds himself is not the world from which he comes, and a chance encounter with a beautiful girl from the old neighborhood-and the forgotten life she reawakens-threatens to unravel his carefully constructed new identity.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
blurb
Nute
Rich Boy | Sharon Pomerantz
post image

#FallTreasures- Over 500 Pages: It was the shoes. The ones shown on the book cover. That was the reason why I purchased this book. Shiny patent leather shoes like my Dad use to wear when really dressing up. Black. Amazingly glossy. Reflective. My Dad use to show me how a drop of water could glide across the surface never finding a place to puddle. I didn‘t read the blurb. I didn‘t consider the 504 pages. Just the thought of Dad & his shoes again.

BookNAround Such a cool memory! 3y
Leftcoastzen That is a cool memory.interconnected random things fascinate me. 3y
MicheleinPhilly I bought this book based on the cover alone too. Still haven‘t read it but what else is new. ☺️ 3y
See All 18 Comments
Amiable That‘s lovely! 3y
TrishB Fab memory ♥️ 3y
Cathythoughts I love this post … great shoes ❤️, great memories ❤️ 3y
TNbookworm Love this post❤ 3y
Eggs Oh how sweet this memory is ... this would be my brother with his black glossy spit-shined shoes 🥰👌🏼🤗 R.I.P. (edited) 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Awwww ❤️❤️❤️ 3y
Nute @Leftcoastzen Me too! The more random, the more fascinating!😃 2y
Nute @MicheleinPhilly So many books that we just gotta have,and, yet, we don‘t have time to read.🥴 2y
Nute @Amiable Thank you, Ms. Amy!💕 2y
Nute @TrishB @Cathythoughts I can‘t believe that it was a forgotten memory until searching for a book for that particular prompt. 2y
Nute @TNbookworm Thank you, Ms. Reba!💕 2y
Nute @Eggs Your brother was the same way! It‘s good that we remember with fondness and love, Sherri!💕 2y
Eggs @Nute 🥰😓 2y
90 likes18 comments