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Warrick
They lived a life others only dream of....
Imagine a huge Italia palazzo in the middle of the Oklahoma hill country, the heartbeat of an empire.
Imagine an oil company worth billions, a dynasty that spans the decades of American legend.
Imagine the one man who started it all, wildcatting his way to the heights of power and wealth.
Imagine his family, the people who love him, fear him - and despise him - for reasons buried deep within their hearts.
Then imagine this world slowly crumbling...
Imagine a huge Italia palazzo in the middle of the Oklahoma hill country, the heartbeat of an empire.
Imagine an oil company worth billions, a dynasty that spans the decades of American legend.
Imagine the one man who started it all, wildcatting his way to the heights of power and wealth.
Imagine his family, the people who love him, fear him - and despise him - for reasons buried deep within their hearts.
Then imagine this world slowly crumbling...
470 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1985
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About the author
Marilyn Harris
40 books81 followersHarris was born on June 4, 1931, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the daughter of John P., an oil executive, and Dora (nee Veal) Harris. Harris was educated in her home state, attending Cottey College from 1945 to 1951, then transferring to the University of Oklahoma, from which she received a bachelor of arts degree in 1953 and a master of arts degree in 1955.
Harris's first collection of short stories, King's Ex, was published by Doubleday in 1967. After that Harris proved a prolific author, publishing seventeen books, including novels, short stories, romance/ historical fiction and children's fiction in a twenty-year period from 1970 to 1989. These works, in addition to those listed above, include In the Midst of Earth (1969), The Peppersalt Land (1970), The Runaway's Diary (1971), The Conjurers (1974), Bledding Sorrow (1976), The Portent (1980), The Last Great Love (1981), Warrick (1985), Night Games (1987), and Lost and Found (1991). Harris's work has received a wide readership; in 1983, nine million of her books were in print, and her work has been translated into many languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, and Japanese. She has also been an author in residence at Oklahoma's Central State University.
She died January 18, 2002.
Harris's first collection of short stories, King's Ex, was published by Doubleday in 1967. After that Harris proved a prolific author, publishing seventeen books, including novels, short stories, romance/ historical fiction and children's fiction in a twenty-year period from 1970 to 1989. These works, in addition to those listed above, include In the Midst of Earth (1969), The Peppersalt Land (1970), The Runaway's Diary (1971), The Conjurers (1974), Bledding Sorrow (1976), The Portent (1980), The Last Great Love (1981), Warrick (1985), Night Games (1987), and Lost and Found (1991). Harris's work has received a wide readership; in 1983, nine million of her books were in print, and her work has been translated into many languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, and Japanese. She has also been an author in residence at Oklahoma's Central State University.
She died January 18, 2002.
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March 13, 2013
From the hardcover jacket:
They were told Tyburn Warrick was dying. So they came to Warrick, the great, sprawling estate, not to comfort but to wait. This was the man who had wild-catted his way to become one of the country's riches oil barons, the man who had built a vast empire out of tyranny and power. And he was the man each of them despised, feared, loved, and respected for reasons that lay buried deep within their hearts.
Warrick is set in the 1980s, and there's a large cast of characters that come *together* to wait for the great man to die and see who inherits what. Grandchildren, old friends from Ty's wildcatting days, and even a high profile preacher (lol at the Faith-O-Mat) who has his minions installed everywhere in the great mansion.
This being a Marilyn Harris novel and all, you know there's going to be a few twists and turns (and there were), but honestly they fell a bit short for me. I was hoping for something more gothicky, and one twist was a bit too *eewww* for my tastes. . I'd also caution potential readers that there is a lot of un-PC language in this book (one of Ty's grandchildren is gay), so is you're kinda squeamish this likely isn't the book for you. All in all it's not a bad book, and I was interested enough to finish, but it's not the Marilyn Harris I came to love in the first five books in her Eden series. Not by a long shot.
They were told Tyburn Warrick was dying. So they came to Warrick, the great, sprawling estate, not to comfort but to wait. This was the man who had wild-catted his way to become one of the country's riches oil barons, the man who had built a vast empire out of tyranny and power. And he was the man each of them despised, feared, loved, and respected for reasons that lay buried deep within their hearts.
Warrick is set in the 1980s, and there's a large cast of characters that come *together* to wait for the great man to die and see who inherits what. Grandchildren, old friends from Ty's wildcatting days, and even a high profile preacher (lol at the Faith-O-Mat) who has his minions installed everywhere in the great mansion.
This being a Marilyn Harris novel and all, you know there's going to be a few twists and turns (and there were), but honestly they fell a bit short for me. I was hoping for something more gothicky, and one twist was a bit too *eewww* for my tastes. . I'd also caution potential readers that there is a lot of un-PC language in this book (one of Ty's grandchildren is gay), so is you're kinda squeamish this likely isn't the book for you. All in all it's not a bad book, and I was interested enough to finish, but it's not the Marilyn Harris I came to love in the first five books in her Eden series. Not by a long shot.
October 11, 2017
Having read Marilyn Harris' gothic romances (which aren't very romantic and more of crazed family sagas), I bought Warrick purely on her name and the confidence that anything she writes is good. Warrick wasn't good, though. It was a very slow, tedious and repetitive read, with an uninspiring twist, underdeveloped characters and a poor ending. The dialogues appeared very stilted to me, and I wasn't happy with the length of the book as compared to the actual content. Marilyn Harris could have done a lot better, and I don't believe she ever wrote anything worse than this.
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