Against a backdrop of New York, Roderick

Thorp has created a novel that goes far beyond the

traditional family saga. Thorp, a master storyteller,

introduces us to three generations of one family--

their enduring loves, disasters, and violence. As each

Westfield generation goes through life, blinded by

their dreams of love and retribution, they suffer the

inevitable fate of all dreamers--the possibilities of

their dreams c()ming true. The Westfield saga is

imbued with the ambience of both high and low

life etched in fascinating detail, but essentially

Westfield is about people, so richly and fully pre-

sented that we become vulnerable to their joys and

sufferings.