American Icon : A Novel

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Summary: This book was good, but I like her others better.
Review: "American Icon" was not your typical Pat Booth book. I will say this much: I think I like her old books better. This book was good, Kate and Peter and Donna and Steven are interesting enough, but it lacks all the steamy scenes of her early books. Try it, you'll like it!!!

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Summary: This book was good, but I like her others better.
Review: I am a great fan of the works of Pat Booth. Her analytical skills, expressed in easily accessible novel form, about modern American life are often breathtaking acute. But American Icon is by far her finest work. The story of the tormented but successful life of a character who might be Clair Booth Luce or Martha Stewart showers the reader with diversion, excitement, empathy, and most of all, understanding of our own modern lives as Americans. It was impossible to see this book as other than a modern classic in the making, a prose poem that I simply could not put down. From now on, whenever I look at a career woman, I will think of what I have learned from Pat Booth and American Icon. The tri-continental views of the gilded life from America to Europe to Africa are gripping. Once my wife finishes it, I plan to read it again.

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Summary: No "Palm Beach"
Review: I enjoyed Pat Booth's other books, Miami, Palm Beach, Malibu and Beverly Hills. I would have liked this book much more had it not been for the ending. I liked the idea of Kate Haywood being a Martha Stewart type, with her rise to success stunning. I was disappointed in her final decision as to who she would spend the rest of her life with. Her husband is an egotistical jerk who wants to take all the credit for her success. I found the book a little confusing they way Ms. Booth spent so much time developing the story of the American sculptor and the English doctor. I kept wondering where this all was going in relation to the start of the book with the development of the Kate Haywood character. All in all I wasn't left with that `book well read' feeling when I finished.

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Summary: No "Palm Beach"
Review: I enjoyed Pat Booth's other books, Miami, Palm Beach, Malibu and Beverly Hills. I would have liked this book much more had it not been for the ending. I liked the idea of Kate Haywood being a Martha Stewart type, with her rise to success stunning. I was disappointed in her final decision as to who she would spend the rest of her life with. Her husband is an egotistical jerk who wants to take all the credit for her success. I found the book a little confusing they way Ms. Booth spent so much time developing the story of the American sculptor and the English doctor. I kept wondering where this all was going in relation to the start of the book with the development of the Kate Haywood character. All in all I wasn't left with that 'book well read' feeling when I finished.

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Summary: With excellent technical production values
Review: Kate, a glamorous New York City based fashion model falls in love with Peter, a successful literary agent. It's the late 1960s when they marry, move to the Hamptons, and have a daughter. Starting their own cottage-industry business, Kate becomes an enormous success as a best selling author, a magazine publisher, and then the head of a home-making empire. But success is not without its costs. Personal and business pressures drive Kate and Peter into the arms of other lovers. But when a tragedy befalls their daughter, both of them come to realize the truth of their commitment to each other and to their family. American Icon is a superbly written novel that is expertly narrated by Kate Harper in the complete and unabridged production from Chivers Audio Books. With excellent technical production values, this highly recommended addition to any community library audiobook collection has a playing time of 13 hours, 15 minutes.