Brothers Under the Skin
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Book Details
About the Book
Luke Daemon and Gerard Dumaine are young men in the insurance business. They have also both married Shirley, Luke as a youth and Gerard coming soon to take his place. Gerard and Shirley go on to a life of global success-he in a multi-national company, she in comparative literature. They travel from one capital to the next. He is finally a CEO, working in the World Trade Center. She teaches at Columbia. Luke marries Debbie and they work in a Chicago insurance office. He is alcoholic and almost dies. He recovers and they go to a small Kentucky city. There he begins a long road from failure to success. Along their marital journeys Luke and Shirley are brought together off and on. A second boy is born to Shirley and Gerard. Who's the father? Luke also makes it to New York and modest success. Then the Towers fall and worlds collapse. What then?
About the Author
This is Elizabeth Von Vogt's fourth novel. Her life has included a teaching career, child-raising and long years in New York and Chicago. She has traveled extensively alone and with her husband in Europe and Japan. She lives with her husband in Maine. Her novels focus on love, marriage and travel.