![]() ![]() ![]() Of the widest scope – from the air over Sicily to the heat-and-color-saturated Sacramento Valley the Bay of Biscay to the sea off Maine the steel mills of Gary, Indiana to the beaches of Amagansett London in the blitz the invasion of Normandy and a single shell gliding across an American lake in August from the luminous houses of the wealthy to the pounding of the boards beneath a Broadway chorus line – this is yet, first, and foremost a love story, but also a hymn to New York of the period when one great age elided into the other that we call our own. While Catherine’s is of a different nature, it is just as consequential, and the courage required of her is perhaps even greater. This becomes his moral and physical struggle. Though after being broken in the war Harry wants nothing but peace, family, and love, organized crime carries on its extortions as always, even in a city now full of the kind of men who stormed the Pointe du Hoc and the Siegfried Line. The meeting of Catherine and Harry, their courtship, and their intense love, play out on the stage of New York awakening at mid-century – in the deep worlds of the theater, industry, and high finance, and during the collision of aristocratic New York society with the formidable wave of second-generation, fully assimilated Jews. ![]()
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