American Icon

by Pat Booth

Book Overview

The mogul of a homemaking empire and star of a top-rated TV show inspires millions of women to emulate her beautiful world. Then in one moment, her "perfect" world collapses, and Kate loses what... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316102121
• ISBN13: 9780316102124
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

With excellent technical production values

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.

This book was good, but I like her others better.

"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!!!

A wonderfully emotional book

I have not read any other books by Pat Booth but I thoroughly enjoyed this one. I suspect that people in my "age group", having been through many of the things that the characters in the book go through, appreciate this book more than others. The characters, while not always likable, were realistic. They made choices that my friends and I have made. The characters in the book were not happy with many of these choices, but that is the way it turns out many times in life, too. The main reason I liked this book was the flawed but realistic characters.

American Icon is a magnificently insightful poem about women

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.