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"Lara has made millions of dollars and a few enemies in her ascent from a childhood of deprivation to the upper echelons of the business world. When she falls in love with a renowned concert pianist she sets about "winning" him as she would a prime piece of waterfront property. But her ties to a lawyer with mafia connections and her shady way of doing business threaten her happiness and eventually her income and reputation"
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"Lara Cameron is the daughter of a boarding house owner in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. She takes loan from a bank and builds her own building.
She moves to Chicago after earning three million dollars. She meets
Howard Keller who helps her in every thing she does. She becomes a successful real estate developer by converting an old hotel into an ultra modern luxury hotel. Then she moves to New York and builds Cameron enterprises and also plans to build the highest skyscraper in the world-Cameron Towers. She falls in love with a renowned concert pianist, Philip Adler and marries him.
She also reveals her darker side by slapping one worker, harassing
tenants by turning their building into a shelter for homeless people and bedding lawyer Paul Martin, who has Mafia connections. Her fortune starts dwindling - her ex-secretary, Gertrude Meeks writes a tell- all book and the law starts poking into the casino that Lara set up with Paul Martin's help."
Sujatha Somayaji, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- depressed
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Life of a profession:
- businessman, big
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Loss of...
- parents
Job/Profession/Status story
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- business executive
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- business executive
- mastermind
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a little/some
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southeast
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Eastern Europe
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- resort/hotel
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Unusual Style:
- a lot of play on words
- a lot of flashback and forwards
Amount of dialog
- mostly dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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