![]() ![]() And with World War II the Abel/William contacts really start hopping. ![]() So Abel vows vengeance on William while-with aid from a mysterious anonymous backer(!)-he manages to salvage the hotel chain and achieve tycoon-dom. But the real connection is made after Abel has become the indispensable right-hand man of a midwest hotelier: when the 1929 Crash comes, Abel and his boss need help from William's bank, William refuses, and Abel's beloved boss commits suicide. ![]() So how do these two heroes-both of them tiresomely brilliant and decent-hook up? Well, there's a brief teasing glimpse of waiter Abel serving William at the Plaza Hotel. Meanwhile, in alternate chapters, Abel Rosnovski is born a Polish orphan bastard, is raised by peasants, is taken in by the local baron (who turns out to be Abel's real pa), survives German and Russian imprisonment, then flees to the U.S. What's a ca-la-mity, Mommy?"") his mother remarries badly (a slimy fortune-hunter whom canny teenager William runs out of town) and dies in childbirth and William becomes an incredibly young director of the family bank. ![]() William Kane is the banker, a handsome Lowell/Cabot scion who is impossibly precocious, noble, and cool: his father dies on the Titanic (""Oh, look. Two intermittently interesting, mostly clichÉd life stories (1906-1967)-which unsubtle Archer (Shall We Tell the President?) has linked up, using coincidences that belong only in Italian opera and plot secrets that only Dickens could get away with (and did). ![]()
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