Fred Mustard Stewart Knihy

V roku 1907 prichádza do Ameriky cez imigračnú stanicu na ostrove Ellis Island spolu s tisíckami iných prisťahovalcov aj pätica hrdinov románu. Dve írske sestry utekajú pred políciou, Žid Jakob uniká pred pogromami v cárskom Rusku, Talian Marco verí, že nájde za morom lepší život a Čech Tomáš uprednostní otročenie v baniach Virgínie pred službou v armáde cisára Františka Jozefa. Cesty piatich Európanov sa prvý raz stretnú na zaoceánskom parníku a zostanú prepojené aj v Amerike. V novej vlasti majú všetci spoločný cieľ - premeniť svoje túžby na skutočnosť, ale v krajine snov na nich nečaká iba radosť a úspech...

A multigenerational saga of the Collingwoods, a California dynasty both blessed and cursed by the fortune it does everything to win and keep.

Dr. Herbert Mentius, a character in The Methuselah Enzyme, asserts that death is "not natural at all" but rather an "avoidable mistake." This novel is one of many by Fred Mustard Stewart, who passed away at 75 without experiencing the DNA modifications he envisioned. Stewart, known for his intercontinental sagas, consistently produced lengthy works, diverging from his initial aspiration to be a concert pianist, which inspired his first novel, The Mephisto Waltz. Born in Anderson, IN, he was the son of a banker and attended prestigious schools, studying history at Princeton and piano at Juilliard. By the 1960s, realizing his limitations as a pianist, he turned to writing after marrying literary agent Joan Richardson in 1967, achieving immediate success with his debut. In The Methuselah Enzyme, Stewart displays wit, though it lacks the depth of Henry James. His later work, Six Weeks, tells the story of a married man running for a Democratic Senate seat, who becomes infatuated with a cold-cream heiress, influenced by her ailing daughter. While not on par with Nabokov, it surpasses the 1982 film adaptation featuring Dudley Moore and Mary Tyler Moore.